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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 does Eve tell Benny that she does not believe?

2. What does Simon tell Heather was the reason they had not known Eve before?

3. Who was Bunty Brown that Mother Francis tells Kit about?

4. Why is Annabel worried about Patsy going out with Rooney?

5. Trying on the dress Clodagh makes for her, what does Eve say when Benny says she looks like the prow of a ship?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens that makes Benny feel like a little traitor?

2. What is significant about Jack's breaking off with Shirley?

3. What is Nan's activity at the dance?

4. How does Nan get a generous allowance from her father, Brian Mahon, when she starts at the university?

5. How is Eve's character established early on in the novel?

6. What is Nan's comment when Benny cannot stay for Frank's funeral and has to take the bus back home?

7. What is Eve wearing at the dance that gets her many compliments?

8. Describe the meeting of Jack, Benny, and Nan at the hospital.

9. What happens when Nan goes home after leaving the hospital?

10. How does Benny learn the name of the driver of the car involved in the accident?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay of at least two typed, double-spaced pages on Benny as an Unlikely Heroine. (1) Define her strengths and weaknesses. (2) Explain why you think

Maeve Binchy chose a girl like Benny to be the central character of the novel. (3) How do you see Benny as the epitome of a good friend? (4) Discuss Benny as

an overprotected young lady who acquiesces to her parents' rules.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay of at least two typed, double-spaced pages on the value of Loyalty Among Friends. Divide the essay into three main points--the need for friends; the effects of disloyalty among friends; and what is gained by being loyal to a friend.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay of at least two typed, double-spaced pages on Superficiality. Divide the essay into two main parts--first, discuss Nan and Simon who go on appearances and how that causes them both to make bad choices. Discuss how Nan's affectation of good breeding and elegant dressing could not alter the manipulative person she really was. Mention Simon's first impression that Nan was rich because of what he saw and how appearances in that case were all a lie.

In the second part, discuss making judgments on appearance using the towns people's reaction to Clodagh and Fonzie who are good-hearted but look different.

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