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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 happened to the church where the Candelabrum came from?
2. Where does Amanda accuse Tom of living?
3. What does Jim say about Candlelight?
4. Who provides Amanda a match when the lights go out?
5. What does Amanda tell Jim he has been good for?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Amanda tell Jim he has been good for?
2. What does Tom tell Jim about The Union of Merchant Seamen?
3. What does Amanda blame Laura's weakness on when she comes to the table and has to be taken to the couch?
4. What does Jim remember about Laura from school as apposed to what she remembers.
5. What does Jim say when he realizes that Amanda is making long term plans for him being a caller on Laura?
6. What does Jim stat might have happened to the light bill Amanda gave to Tom?
7. What does Jim advise Laura to remember about getting to know people and being shy?
8. Why does she tell Jim that he should look at the fuse box and not Tom?
9. What does Amanda do when the lights go off?
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
Describe the differences between Tom and Laura. What is it about their temperaments that have made them react so differently to Amanda? Do you think it is possible that she treats Laura and Tom differently? If so why and how?
Essay Topic 2
After Tom leaves the apartment he sees Amanda talking to Laura and Laura smiles at her mother. Do you think that Amanda was able to say anything to comfort Laura? What do you believe Amanda said given what we know of her nature?
Essay Topic 3
When Tom is telling Amanda that Jim is coming over she begins to question him about Jim and if he drinks. Amanda tells Jim that old maids are better off than wives of drunkards. Taking into consideration the time and place do you think that Amanda is right? What would have been the difference between the life of an old maid and the life of a drunkards wife?
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