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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 time does Tony pick Eilis up from the boarding house the first time he meets her there?
2. In Part III, what day of the week does Father Flood decide to hold dances?
3. When does Eilis start to feel the fierce sharp cold and have to buy thick socks?
4. In Part III, Section 2, when Tony and Eilis go to Coney Island, how long is their train ride?
5. What does Eilis's mother say that Rose had been seeing a doctor for?
Short Essay Questions
1. According to Miss McAdam, why did Miss Keegan leave the boarding house?
2. What is Eilis's new room like in Part III, Section 1?
3. How does Tony treat Eilis at the first baseball game they attend together?
4. What do Eilis and the others do during the break after two hours of the game?
5. How does Eilis feel as she watches her first baseball game?
6. Why does Mrs. Kehoe want to speak with Eilis at the beginning of Part III, Section 1?
7. Why does Eilis go to see Father Flood at the beginning of Part III, Section 2?
8. What does Eilis learn about Mr. Rosenblum in the special law bookstore?
9. When Eilis moves to the room in the basement, why does she wish that she had stayed in her old bedroom?
10. What does Eilis's mother tell Eilis about Rose's death?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Eilis spends her first Christmas at the parish hall. Why does Eilis spend her first Christmas in Brooklyn at the parish hall? Does she have other opportunities to spend her second Christmas than going to the parish hall? What does she choose to do and why does she make that decision?
Essay Topic 2
The setting is important to the storyline. In what way are the different settings important to the story? How do the different settings seem to affect characters? How does setting influence the atmosphere of the book? How does it influence the plot?
Essay Topic 3
Eilis begins spending time with Jim. Why does she spend time with him? Why does she not avoid him or tell him that she is married? How do her choices to spend time with him affect Jim and herself?
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