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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. Where does Stephen draw a picture of Margaret in chapter 5?

2. What item does the author suggest you might pick up off a desk in the prologue?

3. Why does Margaret refuse to have chemotherapy or radiation treatments for her illness?

4. What does Margaret have a strong impulse to call the valet at the Hotel Orleans?

5. Whose bedroom does Wanda now occupy in Margaret's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the author introduce a dream that both Wanda and Margaret are having in chapter 7?

2. What causes the decline of Stephen and Margaret's marriage?

3. Why do Margaret and Wanda begin breaking plates in chapter 13? What is the purpose?

4. What is significant about the day Margaret's mother died? What happens to Margaret in the aftermath of her mother's death?

5. What happened to Wanda's parents that caused her to live with her aunt and uncle?

6. What was life like for Wanda when she lived with the Schultz family?

7. For what reason does Margaret decide to invite another person to live in her house? What is this new roommate's profession?

8. What brought Wanda to Seattle? Why?

9. Why does Margaret go to the Hotel Orleans in chapter 10? Who does she meet there?

10. Who does Margaret take to the opening night of Wanda's play? What does Margaret give to Wanda after the play is over?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of the following themes in detail, using quotes from "Broken for You" to support your conclusions:

1) Friendship

2) Grief and Loss

3) War Atrocities

4) Family.

Essay Topic 2

Who is Stephen? How does Margaret feel about him? Why did their relationship end? What was the cause? What role does Stephen play in Margaret's life now? What is Margaret's reaction when the doctor wants to call Stephen upon learning of Margaret's brain tumor? Why does Stephen's new wife call Margaret later in the novel? What does she want? What does she threaten to tell Stephen? How does Margaret react to the threat? What does Stephen say to Margaret after this threat is made good?

Essay Topic 3

Who is Gina? Why does she marry Michael? Why does she insist that she cannot have children? What happens when she does have a child? How does Michael respond to his wife's inability to deal with their child? How does Michael respond when Gina leaves him and his daughter? Why did Michael put his entire life on hold for this one woman? Where has his search for Gina taken Michael? To which character does Michael's obsession with his wife compare? How do they compare?

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