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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Polly live with?
(a) Her mother and father.
(b) Her fiance.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her aunt and uncle.

2. What is Polly's last name?
(a) Bay.
(b) Bray.
(c) Shay.
(d) Day.

3. What does Angelica use as an excuse to remain secluded?
(a) Pregnancy.
(b) Illness.
(c) Busy with work.
(d) Exhaustion.

4. What is Mrs. Ramsey's reputation in the community she lives in?
(a) She hates animals.
(b) She is wild for an older woman.
(c) She is pure of heart.
(d) She is a bad influence on the children.

5. What causes the spinster to go back inside when she tries to watch the fight?
(a) A boy yelling at her.
(b) The men trying to involve her in the fight.
(c) The apparition of her friend.
(d) The sign on the sidewalk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the story in Chapter 21?

2. Who has Emma been outcast by?

3. What is the name of the spinster's best friend?

4. Which of Mrs. Ramsey's relatives is a soldier?

5. Who does Emma see at the museum?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is anonymity a theme in "The Philosophy Lesson"?

2. What are the spinster's final feelings about the "I love someone" written on the sidewalk?

3. What lesson does Emily learn from Lottie?

4. What is the gift that Arthur sends to his grandmother? How does it affect her?

5. How does Emma show that she is afraid of rejection?

6. What do Polly's actions after she learns that her fiance has died represent?

7. How does the title, "A Summer Day", correspond to the story of Jim Littlefield?

8. How is the title "The Philosophy Lesson" significant to the story of Cora?

9. How does Mrs. Ramsey's story represent the difference between the old and the new?

10. Is the abuse against Hannah indirect or direct? How?

(see the answer keys)

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