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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the poem recited by Miss Dobie, the girl's lover was taken away by ______________.
(a) thugs.
(b) the sea.
(c) police officers.
(d) fairies.

2. What did the narrator's mother think of the person in #6?
(a) She was ideal.
(b) She was selfish and uncaring.
(c) She was very efficient.
(d) She was lazy.

3. What does Murray catch Victor doing when he comes home one day?
(a) Stealing food.
(b) Setting fire to the drapes.
(c) Taking money from the register.
(d) Watching Barbara sunbathing.

4. What does Jarvis tell Almeda which means that he intends to propose marriage?
(a) He wants to take her to his parents' home for dinner.
(b) He wants her to meet with him and his banker.
(c) He wants to take her on a vacation.
(d) He will walk with her to church.

5. Why did the man in #3 marry Ellie and not Flora?
(a) He got Ellie pregnant.
(b) Flora didn't love him anymore.
(c) Flora didn't want to marry anyone.
(d) Ellie had a bigger dowry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Almeda wonder when she hears the sounds in the night?

2. What did the girl in #28 pay local boys to do?

3. What street in Almeda's town has some undesirable homes and people?

4. Hazel wants to visit her husband's aunt, ___________________.

5. Where do Murray and Barbara see a card written by a schoolboy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the town's attitude about the poor people in town?

2. Why has Hazel decided to travel to a town in Scotland and who does she meet right away when she arrives?

3. What role does Murray's paranoia play in the story?

4. How did the generation gap separate the narrator and her mother and what conclusion does she come to regarding how well she knew her own mother?

5. What are some of the possible lies in the story?

6. Why would Murray have secretly wanted Barbara to have had an affair?

7. What is the theme of this story?

8. What was the relationship between the narrator's mother, and Flora after the narrator's mother moved away to marry and start a family?

9. What does the fight between Brenda and Neil signify?

10. Who are Murray and Barbara, how did they meet and what type of business do they operate now?

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