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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. How far is it from Calvin's house to work?

2. What exercise is Elizabeth doing in Chapter 15 to help her sleep?

3. How many children did Harriet have?

4. How tall was Calvin?

5. How old was Calvin Evans when he had contributed research that helped chemist Frekderick Sanger win the Nobel Prize?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Elizabeth hit a man with her handbag in an elevator in Chapter 15?

2. Why does Elizabeth believe in Chapter 6, that she has never been defined by what she does?

3. Who is Harriet Sloane, and how do she and Elizabeth meet?

4. How does Elizabeth figure out how to row?

5. What is Calvin buried in and why?

6. In Chapter 10, what is the only time that Six-Thirty bolts when walking?

7. Why was Elizabeth not accepted for a doctorate program?

8. What do Hastings management learn about Elizabeth's colleagues being able to carry on her work when they fire her?

9. How does Elizabeth learn that she is pregnant?

10. How does Madeline try to fit in at school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Elizabeth is teaching Madeline using experiential learning. What is experiential learning? How does this type of learning seem to be affecting Madeline?

Essay Topic 2

Women were inhibited by gender roles in the 1950s and 1960s. How has Elizabeth been limited by gender roles? How has her ability to pursue her career suffered because of gender roles?

Essay Topic 3

Defamiliarization is a literary technique that presents common things in an unfamiliar or strange way. How does Garmus use defamiliarization when she describes the funeral from Six-Thirty's perspective? How does this use of defamiliarization allow readers to have a different perspective and see the funeral in a unique way?

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