The Beginning of Spring Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 176 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Beginning of Spring Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 176 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. In Chapter 1, a messenger delivers a letter from Nellie to Frank at what location?

2. In Chapter 2, Frank receives a call informing him his children are being taken care of where?

3. When Frank tells Dolly where the paper and envelopes are if she wants to write her mother, what is her response?

4. As Frank departs the Chaplaincy, Miss Kinsman follows how closely?

5. What employment has Miss Kinsman been at when Frank meets her?

Short Essay Questions

1. At supper on the day Charlie returns to England, what is Lisa's response, when prodded by Frank, to Ben's inquiry regarding how it is better for women now than it was ten years ago?

2. What does Frank do with the man he finds has broken into his business?

3. What actions does Lisa take that very much please Frank when he arrives home quite late one evening?

4. During the good-byes as the children and their governess depart for the dacha, what seems to confirm that Lisa accepts Frank's passion?

5. What is Rusalochka's like?

6. In a later conversation between Frank and Dolly, what do they discuss concerning her mother?

7. What concerns Frank following Mitya's party?

8. What takes place the morning before Charlie is to return to England and Frank is en route to catch the morning tram for work?

9. Why is it Mrs. Kuriatin readily agrees to have Dolly and Ben come after school to Mitya's party?

10. What are Frank's plans for spring cleaning of his residence in Moscow that appear in Chapter 26?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is Frank so concerned that the break-in to Reid Press might become a major security matter, when he had considered taking the police with him to investigate the night before? How skillful is Frank in preventing the burglary from escalating to that level? What are Frank's aims?

Essay Topic 2

Until Chapter 19, the reader is not made aware of the amount of pleasure the warmth of his family's life brings to Frank. How does the author achieve this? How much satisfaction does physical contact provide to Frank? How is it brought out how attune Frank is?

Essay Topic 3

Before Lisa has even arrived for her first day of employment at the Reid home Kuriatin imparts what Frank believes is a comment on his hiring her. What is it that Kuriatin relates, and how does Frank regard it? What is it that Tvyordov does that is similar? How does Frank view what Tvyordov does? What concerns Frank?

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