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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. Del explores the actual creative and ______________ process of creating a story.

2. What does Naomi's father do to her when she gets home?

3. Who does Del dance with at the dance?

4. Del believes that if she had been born in ____________ she would have already received the answers to her sexual questions.

5. The next morning Del awakens with ________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how the night of the dance further drives a wedge in Del and Naomi's relationship.

2. What becomes of Miss Farris and Mr. Boyce a few years after the operetta?

3. What is the reason for the beginning of the end of Del and Naomi's friendship?

4. How does Del feel about Frank Wales after the operetta?

5. What story does the epilogue tell?

6. What do Del and Naomi talk about and how do they manage to do it in secret?

7. What happens to Naomi when her father realizes she had been out all night drinking and carousing?

8. What is happening to Del in this section?

9. What happens to Del after she and Naomi and their dates continue their evening at a hotel?

10. What happens to Mr. Chamberlain after his time with Del in the country that day?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the girls and women in Del's life. What role do they serve in her development? How does Del manage through the ups and downs with each of the girls and women in her life? What do they all have in common? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Del desperately wants to distinguish herself from her mother yet she is like her in many ways. Name some ways that Del is different from her mother as well as some ways that she is like her mother.

Essay Topic 3

Address Del's search for meaning in her life through religion? Do you agree with her process of elimination? What do you think Del is trying to find? Does she find it? Explain.

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