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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. How long has Polly been engaged in the story?

2. What is Mrs. Ramsey's reaction to the package's contents?

3. How much money does the woman give the person she sees on the way to church?

4. Where did Emma move to?

5. At the beginning of "Between the Porch ad the Altar" where is the woman going?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How are Daisy and her sister able to find humor in unpleasantness?

3. What emotions do Daisy and her sister feel at the zoo?

4. What lesson does Emily learn from Lottie?

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

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

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

8. How does the title, "The End of a Career", relate to the story?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain how relevant the title of 3 different short stories is to the plot, characters, and setting of those stories.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

What story is the most haunting or resounding? Why?

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