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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. What has Helen not done since New Year's?

2. What causes the house to always be dusty?

3. What time does Helen come home at night?

4. How old is Ida?

5. What has Frank hated to do since he was a kid?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Helen feel about Frank now?

2. Why does Ida resent Morris and their current situation? What responsibility does she have for the state of their lives?

3. Describe Frank's early family life.

4. Describe the relationship between the old woman and the Bobers.

5. What traumatic event caused a change in Morris' habits?

6. What happens to Morris at the end of the chapter? How does this event reflect his life?

7. According to Morris, what does it mean to be Jewish?

8. What terrible things are revealed about Frank in this chapter?

9. What does Nick, the tenant, do to offend Morris?

10. Who is the man hanging around the neighborhood?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on the character strengths and weaknesses of Morris Bober. Be sure to address:

1) How Morris character traits influence his past and present life.

2) How Morris views and responds to the world and opportunities around him.

3) Whether or not you feel Morris is a tragically flawed character, and why (with evidence from the text).

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay detailing a plan for re-designing the Bober grocery store and turning it into a successful business. Thing to consider:

1) Products, promotions, specials, and displays to attract and keep customers.

2) The possibility of turning the grocery store into an entirely different type of business.

3) What you feel are the main problems facing the business, and how you will correct them.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay describing how you feel Frank and Helen's lives turn out following the end of the novel. Be sure to address:

1) How you feel the character traits of Frank and Helen will determine their futures.

2) Whether or not you think Frank and Helen will marry, and why.

3) Whether you feel the author intends the reader to have a positive or negative impression of Frank and Helen's lives following the end of the story, and why.

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