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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 Brian complain about Nan studying upstairs?
2. What does Nan bring to Eve in the hospital?
3. What does Eve tell Benny that she does not believe?
4. Why does Eve cultivate a friendship with Nan?
5. What funny thing does the Protestant Heather want to know about nuns?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Jack entertained in Knockglen?
2. Describe the meeting of Jack, Benny, and Nan at the hospital.
3. How is Eve's character established early on in the novel?
4. Explain why Brian wants Nan to study downstairs with her brothers.
5. Describe the first pangs of Jealousy Benny feels with Nan and Eve.
6. Why does Benny tell Jack she is Cinderella?
7. What are two surprises Eve gets when she visits Westlands?
8. What is significant about Jack's breaking off with Shirley?
9. How does Eve accept Benny's explanation for why she cannot stay overnight with Eve?
10. Why does Dr. Foley ask his son Jack to drive him to Knockglen?
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 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.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay of at least two typed, double-spaced pages on Dealing With Death in Circle of Friends. First, describe how Kit needs Mother Francis' help to deal with the death of her son, Frank; and next, describe how Benny and Annabel deal with Eddie's death by depending on each other. Conclude with the part good friendships play during times of tragedy.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay of at least two typed, double-spaced pages on How Adults and their Biases Can Ruin the Lives of Children. Begin with Eve and the absurdity of her grandparents to refuse to take her in after her parents died because her father had been Catholic. Demonstrate how their behavior made Eve bitter and hurt her deeply without any fault of her own. Next deal with Heather who was taken in after her parents were killed only to suffer almost the same treatment that Eve had. Heather wants to attend Mother Francis' school but runs into the objection that it is a Catholic school. Simon and his grandfather want to send her to a boarding school she hates. conclude with a generality about how many different things adults do may make a child's life miserable.
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