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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 is Rose carrying when Eilis sees her coming home from work at the beginning of Part I?

2. Where does Miss Fortini send Eilis when Eilis shows up sad for the second day in a row at work?

3. What does George buy Nancy and Eilis to drink when they are at a dance on the Sunday Eilis first works for Miss Kelly?

4. Where was the lodger, Patty McGuire, born?

5. What is the nationality of the man that Father Flood knows who is willing to give Eilis a job in Brooklyn?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the "Famous Nylon Sale" at Bartocci's?

2. What does Miss Kelly say when Eilis tells her that she is going to America?

3. What is Miss McAdam, one of Mrs. Kehoe's boarders like?

4. What does Miss Kelly say about her helper Mary?

5. How does Eilis get a shop coat and what type does she buy?

6. What are the accommodations like at Mrs. Kehoe's boarding house?

7. What does Eilis know about Miss Kelly's store before she goes to work there?

8. How does Miss Bartocci tell Eilis customers are treated?

9. What happened to Mrs. Kehoe's husband?

10. What does Miss Kelly give Eilis when she has her come in and work an extra day in the shop?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Eilis keeps her relationship and marriage with Tony a secret. Why does no one in Ireland know that she has been seeing Tony? How does Eilis decision to keep the relationship a secret cause her problems and influence her thinking?

Essay Topic 2

Love is one of the themes in the novel. What types of love are represented in the story? How is familial love important to Eilis and to the plot? How does romantic love advance the plot and how does it affect Eilis’s life?

Essay Topic 3

Eilis discovers who she is as she lives in America. What discoveries does Eilis make about herself? How do those discoveries help her to grow and mature? Why is her self-discovery an important theme in the book?

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