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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. In which season did Jessica and Esmond return to London from Corsica?

2. After the death of their daughter, to where did Esmond and Jessica travel?

3. What did Jessica realize differed between she and Kay?

4. What did Esmond find a job doing in Washington?

5. In which month did Jessica and Esmond arrive in New York?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Esmond find a job doing in Washington, D.C.?

2. Why did Jessica refuse to have lunch on the ship that Nancy was supposed to have been on?

3. Where did Esmond find employment, and how was the pay?

4. What did Jessica think of the protest meeting held by the Communists that she attended?

5. How did Jessica and Esmond lose all their money in France?

6. Whom did Jessica and Esmond ask for permission to marry?

7. What did Jessica and Esmond decide to do after Esmond lost his job?

8. In the time after they left New York, what would Jessica and Esmond discuss with many of the people they met?

9. Why did Jessica and Esmond decide to emigrate to America?

10. What did a friend offer Jessica and Esmond to help with their financial troubles?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss some of the anecdotes in the memoir. Why might Jessica have decided to share these particular memoirs with the reader? In what tone are these anecdotes written? What do they tell us about the author?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Jessica's time in France. Why did she move to France? What did she and Esmond do while there? What struggles did they face?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Jessica's childhood. What did she say about her childhood? What struggles did she face? Did she have a happy childhood? Why or why not? What was her relationship like with her parents and siblings during her childhood? What concerned her in her youth?

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