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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. Where does Jim sit down?

2. Why does Laura tell her mother she can't answer the door?

3. What does Amanda tell Laura that all pretty girls are?

4. Who does Jim say was talking to him about Tom?

5. As Tom steps out of the house where does Amanda tell him to go?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was it that made Jim and Tom friends at the warehouse?

2. What things does Tom say described what Jim was like and what he did in high school?

3. What is the significance of the flowers that Amanda comes in holding after she has changed into her dress?

4. What does Laura say to Jim before he recognizes her?

5. What does Amanda say about the supper that has been prepared?

6. Why is Jim on friendly terms with Tom at the warehouse and he feel that Tom is valuable to him?

7. Why is it that Tom couldn't leave Laura behind?

8. What does Amanda do when the lights go off?

9. When Amanda is getting Laura ready what does she say that Laura couldn't possibly be satisfied with?

10. Why did Laura go to all three of Jim's high school choir performances of The Pirates of Penzance?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

You are allowed to hear two phone calls that Amanda made while she was trying to sell the magazine subscriptions. What are you able to learn about her character listening to her end of the conversation? Do you think that she was successful in her attempts to sell the subscriptions? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Do you think that Jim would have kissed Laura if she had not remembered him from his high school years when he was so popular? Compare Amanda and Jim's characters.

Essay Topic 3

Jim breaks the unicorn in Amanda's glass collection. She says that it may be a blessing because now that one can fit in with the horses and won't be all alone. Do you think that this is a reflection of what Jim did to Amanda? Do you think that he has chipped away the part of her that kept her separate from the others like her? What makes you think that?

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