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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 part of town does Sophie think is rather ugly?

2. What is Otto obsessed with in Chapter 12?

3. What does Claire send home to give to Otto?

4. What does Otto promise to do for Sophie when they get home from the hospital?

5. How long did Sophie and Otto have to wait in the waiting room?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Mr. Haynes? How is his home described?

2. What does Sophie hope will happen when she flirts with Otto? What comes of it?

3. What does Sophie hear as she leaves the hospital? Why does this upset her?

4. What does Sophie witness while waiting to get her prescriptions filled?

5. How does Sophie feel when she leaves Claire's house?

6. What does Otto promise to do for Sophie when they return from the hospital?

7. What does Sophie do after calling some hospitals? Why?

8. How did Otto find out about Sophie and Charlie going out? What is his response to this?

9. What does Otto suggest to Sophie when they return home from Flynders?

10. What does Leon say about society?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

This book takes place in a few different settings. Describe some of these settings their effect on the plot. Why might Paula Fox have chosen these particular places for this plot to take place?

Essay Topic 2

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears? How do the characters touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 3

The characters in this book all had their own goals and motivations. Select four characters and write their main motivation throughout the book and how this goal affected the characters around them.

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