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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What overflows in Almeda's house?

2. What does Almeda see when she looks outside her window?

3. Which of the following does Jarvis not note about Almeda this morning?

4. What does Almeda decide to call her poem?

5. When does the narrator tell about going to Alameda's grave?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

MENESETEUNG is set in the 1800s, long before the women's rights movement. How is the character of Almeda presented as being ahead of her time regarding women's rights and traditional roles? What would Almeda have thought of the women's rights movement? ow would she have participated? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Explain the nature of this book and why the author created it the way she did. Why did she choose to create a story fabricated from a framework of only historical facts? Is it effective? How is it different from reading a regular novel? How is it the same?

Essay Topic 3

Munro uses more than one instance of irony in the book. Cite at least two examples you can identify in the story and note why they are examples of irony.

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