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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 is the first subject the man at the bar brings up when he first addresses Anne?
2. Where does Anne tell the man her house is located?
3. Who says, "it would have been impossible for me not to come back"?
4. What instrument does the child learn in the book?
5. Where does Anne tell the man at the bar she usually goes on her walks instead of to the cafe?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe what Anne, the child, and the teacher see when they look outside the window to investigate the source of the scream.
2. Describe what can be seen outside the teacher's apartment.
3. How does the man at the bar react toward Anne when she repeats his theories of the murder at the end of Chapter 2?
4. Describe the teacher's reaction after Anne, the child, and the teacher investigate the scream outside the window.
5. How does Anne describe her bedroom window to the man in Chapter 3?
6. Describe the conversation between the man at the bar and Anne when they first meet.
7. How does the man describe Anne as she looked at the factory worker's reception the previous year?
8. How does Anne react towards the man when he asks her questions about her home?
9. What does Anne tell Chauvin regarding the beech tree near her bedroom window?
10. Describe what the dead woman's husband does just before he is taken off in the police van.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze the child's lack of obedience in the book. What reasons might the child have for misbehaving? What does his lack of obedience say about Anne's parenting?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the author's method of blurring time and space in many chapters of the book. What was the purpose of this method? What did it help to accomplish in terms of character development?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the significance in the use of reality in the often fantasy driven conversations between Anne and Chauvin. In what ways was this reality used to foreshadow the future of their relationship?
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