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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 happens after the confrontation between Eve and Nan at the cottage?

2. What are Benny and Heather doing when Heather asks about the boy Benny had been dieting for?

3. Why does Mrs. Healy refuse to allow Fonsie and Clodagh to enter the hotel bar?

4. Where does Jack invite Nan to go because he thinks Benny is in Knockglen?

5. Who asks Mrs. Healy to marry him and she accepts?

Short Essay Questions

1. What advice of Nan's does Benny use to dissuade her father from walking her to Eve's party and coming to collect her later?

2. How does Benny get home to Knockglen after the news arrives that her father has died?

3. What does Emily find in Nan's room that indicates her ambition to join high society?

4. On their date at the restaurant, what romantic thing takes place?

5. Thinking about Jack and Nan, how close does Benny come to the real truth?

6. What is the exchange between Jack and Benny the morning after Jack took Nan to a dance?

7. How does Sean manipulate an invitation to the Hogan's house for Christmas?

8. What is the resolution for Benny at the end of the novel?

9. What is the meeting like at the cafe when Kit and Joseph are there?

10. What does Nan do when she is sure she is pregnant?

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 My Recommendation for Circle of Friends. In your essay that either recommends the novel or not, be specific in your reasons. Deal with (1) the plot line and sub plots; (2) the development of the characters; and (3) the use of complications. After analyzing the story, put your recommendation at the end of the essay.

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 Rising to the Occasion. Use the character of Annabel in three phases--first, as a dutiful housewife and subservient to her husband Eddie; second, as a devastated widow ill prepared to manage life without a husband; and third, as a businesswoman, changed and confident as she learns to manage the business.

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