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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 does Alma think the place Pammy works smells like?
2. In what industry does Paulie work?
3. What is Pammy doing while they walk Pine Street, which Alma finds nearly absurd?
4. What does Alma recall Paul, Sr. doing the time Pammy slapped her?
5. In addition to working "dumb jobs" (3) and never marrying, what are Pammy and Paulie always doing?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Alma remember about the time she visited the zoo with Pammy and Paulie as children?
2. Who is Paulie? Why is he not with Alma at the start of the story?
3. How does Alma feel about Pammy pointing out the purple flowers to her on their walk? What is Pammy wearing and how does Alma feel about her outfit?
4. What does Paulie recall from the night he hit his father in the groin for scaring him and his sister? What does Alma recall?
5. How does Alma feel about how her children turned out despite being such smart children?
6. What did Alma do for her husband to entice him to stay home when he began staying out all night when the children were young?
7. Who is Paul, Sr.? What did he do for work? Was he successful? How do you know?
8. Who is Pammy? Who is Alma? Why are they together at the start of "Mother's Day"?
9. Who is Debi Hather? Where does Alma first see her in the story? How does Alma remember her?
10. What were Paul, Sr.'s vices?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Though Debi and Alma's thoughts the readers sees how each woman copes by rewriting the past. Write an essay explore the ways in which both Debi and Alma rewrite their story. What parts of their story do they change and why?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay about how the rainstorm impacts the narrative and moves the story's plot.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay exploring the theme of motherhood in "Mother's Day." Discuss Debi and Alma as mothers and their present relationship with their children. How do these relationships speak to the themes of the past, regret, and self-delusion?
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