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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 does Benny invite Eve Malone to her party?
2. Why does Mother Francis arrange for Eve and Kit to be alone together?
3. Why is Benny nervous at the dance?
4. What does Brian complain about Nan studying upstairs?
5. How does Nan see the boys from the university?
Short Essay Questions
1. What surprise awaits Benny when she goes to meet Jack?
2. Why does Dr. Foley ask his son Jack to drive him to Knockglen?
3. Describe the meeting of Jack, Benny, and Nan at the hospital.
4. Why are Benny and Eve in the Healy Hotel and what are they doing?
5. Describe the hope and the reality about Benny's new dress for the party.
6. How does Nan react when Eve tells her all about Westward?
7. What do Eve and Heather talk about as they get better acquainted?
8. Explain why Brian wants Nan to study downstairs with her brothers.
9. How does Jack learn what happened in the accident?
10. Why does Clodagh tell Fonzie not to write her any more letters?
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 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 2
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 3
Write an essay of at least two typed, double-spaced pages on Simon Westward's Money Problems. Discuss the two sides of Simon--his willingness to help Eve with her tuition money and Heather's obvious affection for him as contrasted with his dalliance with Nan while still pursuing the English widow in order to get the money to save his family's estate. Conclude with an observation about how financial problems often affect the personality of the people who have them.
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