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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. When Elisabeth graduated from college at 21, what was the name of the man she met?

2. When was Wendy's dinner guest an actor?

3. What was Elisabeth reading on pages 207-211?

4. Shat was the man with the gun wearing in Daniel's story he told 13-year-old Elisabeth on a walk?

5. Twenty years after 13-year-old Elisabeth took a walk with Daniel without permission, what time-lapse image is mentioned?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the advertising campaign for Cream of Wheat breakfast cereal from 1900 to the mid-1920s?

2. What was Christine Keeler doing and what did she find when she was playing with some boys?

3. On pages 129-144, why is Elisabeth's mother more cheerful than usual?

4. On pages 167-172, what does a caregiver tell Elisabeth about Daniel?

5. On pages 123-128, how is a time-lapse described?

6. On pages 176-172, what did Daniel say after he learned the name of Elisabeth's cat?

7. What happens when Elisabeth goes back to the post office to apply for her passport a second time?

8. What does Elisabeth's new passport look like when she finally receives it?

9. On pages 129-144, what happens when Elisabeth walks by the fence?

10. As Elisabeth watches a show with her mother on pages 129-144, what does she think about a couple she saw at the station?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Elisabeth has to deal with bureaucracy at the post office and a medical clinic. How do people at the post office and medical clinic use bureaucracy to be unhelpful? What is demonstrated about bureaucracy through Elisabeth’s experiences?

Essay Topic 2

Twice in the novel the phrase “it was the worst of times” is used in the novel. How does Smith use the phrase to highlight her disapproval of British conservatives and the pro-Brexit movement? What else does she criticize when she uses that phrase? What does she reveal about the reactions to Brexit and populism? In what way does the novel reveal that Smith believes it to be the worst of times?

Essay Topic 3

On page 56, Wendy tells Elisabeth that she is tired. How is Wendy’s tiredness more than physical? What really tires her, and how do those things cause a mental and physical exhaustion?

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