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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 Eilis starts her second year of classes at Brooklyn College, what night does she see a movie with Tony?

2. In Part III, Section 2, who does Tony say they will get revenge on during the first baseball game Tony takes Eilis to?

3. Who writes to Eilis after Rose's death?

4. In Part III, where is the special law book store that Mr. Rosenblum recommends to Eilis?

5. What day of the week did Miss Keegan usually light a fire at the boarding house?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tony treat Eilis at the first baseball game they attend together?

2. What do Eilis and the others do during the break after two hours of the game?

3. Why does Eilis not spend Christmas with Tony's family in Part III, Section 2?

4. When Eilis moves to the room in the basement, why does she wish that she had stayed in her old bedroom?

5. What does Mrs. Kehoe say about dances held in the parish hall after the war?

6. What does Eilis do to avoid the second parish dance in Part III, Section 1?

7. What announcement does Father Flood make in Part III, Section 1?

8. In Part III, Section 1, why does Eilis edit what she writes home in her letters?

9. How is Eilis able to speak with her mother after Rose's death?

10. Why does Eilis go to see Father Flood at the beginning of Part III, Section 2?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The overall mood in the novel is positive. What words would you use to describe the mood in the novel? How does the mood affect the reader’s attitude toward characters?

Essay Topic 2

Eilis almost does not return to Brooklyn. Why does Eilis have doubts about returning to America? What influences her to return, and how does she feel about returning?

Essay Topic 3

Eilis leaves her close-knit community in Ireland to immigrate to America. How does growing up in the community of Enniscorthy make Eilis the person she has become? How is a new community created around her in America? How does that community help grow and mature?

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