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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the female narrator see as they drive to ville rose?

2. Who was coming to arrest the female narrator?

3. Who is the female narrator referring to in this sentence, "I wish he would catch a bullet so we could see how scared he really is"?

4. Who says, "You must love him for this, you must"?

5. Who is the female narrator referring to in this sentence, "At the morgue, they say a car ran over him and took the head off his body?"

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Think about the old man on the boat. What do you think his presence represents? Why do you think he is always looking over the narrator's shoulder as he writes? Why do you think the narrator asks him to tell his story to his parents? What do you make of the old man's vision?

Essay Topic 2

How is the sea personified in the story? What do the narrators descriptions of the sea tell us about the narrator himself? How does this contrast with the female narrator's descriptions of the mountains?

Essay Topic 3

Think about the two narrators' surroundings. What do their descriptions of the sea and the mountains foreshadow in the story? What does this tell us about their relationship?

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