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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 Emily get caught doing?

2. What does Ella witness?

3. What part of Angelica's body ages first?

4. Where does Angelica travel each year?

5. What is the name of Polly's fiance?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ella show that she loves her horse?

2. What does Ella fear and how does she show it?

3. Compare Emily to Lottie.

4. What are the effects of Beatrice's childhood on her adulthood?

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

6. Why does Judy think that her happiest day was the day in the mountains?

7. What causes Beatrice to go deaf?

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

9. How does Judy realize her love for Rod, her fiance?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Does Stafford write happy endings? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

How does Stafford use loneliness as a theme to create action in her stories?

Essay Topic 3

What role does Stafford apply to psychological horror? Choose at least 3 characters to discuss.

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