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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. Why did Eve's family not take her in after her parents died?

2. At the party, why does Benny hide in the cloak room?

3. What does Benny do when she goes on a walk with Eve?

4. Why does Eve say Benny should have a bag in one hand and a drink in the other?

5. Why does Eve laugh when Benny tells her she is dieting?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why Brian wants Nan to study downstairs with her brothers.

2. When does the friendship begin between Benny and Eve?

3. Explain Kit Hegarty's fear about her only son.

4. Why are Benny and Eve in the Healy Hotel and what are they doing?

5. How does Eve accept Benny's explanation for why she cannot stay overnight with Eve?

6. What does Benny do before what she thinks is a date with Jack?

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

8. What does Benny learn about how Eve has lived all these years that Benny has pitied her?

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

10. What is the tragedy at the end of Chapter 3?

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 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.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay of at least two typed, double-spaced pages on Resentment and Anger. Use the character of Eve in three aspects--first, her resentment and anger at the Westward family; second, her growing suspicion of Nan; and third, her anger directed at Nan over what she did to Benny and the fact that she did it in her cottage.

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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