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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 Vinnie imagine Chuck doing at the beginning of Chapter 12?
2. What does Fred find at Rosemary's house in Chapter 10 that brings back intimate memories?
3. When Vinnie arrives home from Daphne's party at the end of Chapter 9, who calls her?
4. Who visits Vinnie while she is ill in Chapter 7?
5. What animal reminds Vinnie of Chuck?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is Barbie Mumpson like her father?
2. Explain the events that take place when Fred gets to Holland Park.
3. Why can Vinnie no longer imagine sharing space with anyone?
4. By the time Chuck leaves his belongings with Vinnie when he returns to Wiltshire in Chapter 7, how has his relationship with Vinnie changed from the beginning of the book?
5. What does Vinnie fantasize about the polar bears while she is visiting the London Zoo with her cousins?
6. At the end of Chapter 11, why has Fred never in his life felt worse about himself?
7. Describe the events that take place between Rosemary and Vinnie in the taxi at the end of Chapter 9.
8. What does Fred find at Rosemary's house when he arrives in Chapter 10?
9. Describe the events that lead up to Vinnie disposing of Chuck's raincoat.
10. How does Vinnie try to change Chuck's appearance in Chapter 9?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Throughout the book, Vinnie's vivid imagination pictures terrible things happening to Zimmern. Describe one of the fantasies and the events that cause her to think about Zimmern. Has she ever met Zimmern? Why does she despise him so much?
Essay Topic 2
After observing girls jumping rope, a girl named Mary offers to tell Vinnie some rhymes the girls won't repeat in front of teachers for a fee. How is Mary like Vinnie in appearance? When Vinnie returns to her apartment she considers not using the rhymes she learned from Mary. Why does she not want to use them? Does she decide to use them? What is her motivation for the decision? How does this decision make her and Mary more similar?
Essay Topic 3
Posy's husband, Jimbo, knows she has a lover. He is OK with it so long as he never has to see the lover's face and his family life is not disrupted. How is this relationship more in line with Fred's impression of British open marriages? How does it differ from Fred's relationship with his wife?
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