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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Instead of staying home from the theater like instructed, where does Stella go?

2. Who gives Stella the coat with the fur collar?

3. Who escorts Dawn to the train station?

4. Where is the reporter from that will interview Stella?

5. What does Stella say to Geoffrey about his conversation with Meredith?

Short Essay Questions

1. What new production in Chapter 6 is the theater going to be putting on, and what role was Stella given?

2. Who is not feeling festive with Christmas approaching and why?

3. What impact on the production has O'Hara made playing his role in the play?

4. What is going on with Stella's health in Chapter 7?

5. What has happened since Hilary received Meredith's telegram?

6. What are the two questions that Lily asks Stella, which leads to Stella telling her to shut up?

7. What does Richard think about the situation with Dawn?

8. What is happening with Richard during the rehearsals in Chapter 7 for the third play of the book?

9. What does Geoffrey say to Meredith at the after-party regarding how he is feeling about their relationship?

10. What two injuries occur during the football match?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe what O'Hara's need to stay in his old room symbolizes. How does almost everything having to do with O'Hara involve the theme that history has a nasty habit of repeating itself.

Essay Topic 2

It is foreshadowed many times in the book that Stella is O'Hara's daughter. The author foreshadows it in things that Stella says and does and also in things that O'Hara says and does. Tell all of the ways that it is foreshadowed that Stella is O'Hara's daughter.

Essay Topic 3

Tell the series of events that Stella's lie to Dawn sets in motion. End with how it leads to the entrance of O'Hara.

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