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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. What did Jessica realize differed between she and Kay?

3. Who owned the business for which Esmond worked?

4. How did the people the Romillys met in Washington feel about the American government's economic programs?

5. What did Jessica and Esmond decide to wait for prior to returning to England?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Jessica and Esmond leave Spain?

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

3. What trouble did Jessica and Esmond run into with an electric company?

4. What idea did Esmond come up with to make money in America?

5. What was a typical day like for Jessica and Esmond in Bilbao?

6. What did the Durrs ask Jessica and Esmond about when they visited for dinner?

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

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

9. Who was Mr. Donahue, and what did he do?

10. With whom did Jessica find a new job in 1939?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Jessica's desire to run away as a child. What prompted her to dream of doing this? How did she prepare for such an event? What finally led her to run away? Did she ever regret doing this?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Jessica's struggles throughout the memoir. What caused these obstacles, and how did she deal with them? Was she able to overcome them? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss what happened to Jessica after her husband's death. Was the direction in which she went surprising? What notable things occurred in her later years?

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