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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 recall about Debi's parents?
2. What did Alma once do when Pammy and Paulie did not listen to her at the zoo?
3. Who is Elieen who Alma recalls when thinking of Pammy and Paulie's younger days?
4. What does Alma recall doing when she had once found Paul, Sr. passed out on their porch?
5. Why did Alma begin wearing "the wildest underthings" (4) when her children were young?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Alma feel about how her children turned out despite being such smart children?
2. 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?
3. Who is Pammy? Who is Alma? Why are they together at the start of "Mother's Day"?
4. What were Paul, Sr.'s vices?
5. Who is Paul, Sr.? What did he do for work? Was he successful? How do you know?
6. Who is Debi Hather? Where does Alma first see her in the story? How does Alma remember her?
7. What does Alma remember about the time she visited the zoo with Pammy and Paulie as children?
8. 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?
9. What does Paulie recall from the night he hit his father in the groin for scaring him and his sister? What does Alma recall?
10. Who is Paulie? Why is he not with Alma at the start of the story?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write a brief essay analyzing the title “Mother's Day." Explore the ways in which this title connects to the plot and themes of the story.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Write an essay analyzing Paul, Sr.'s character in "Mother's Day." Who was he? What was his relationship with Alma and Debi? How does his character drive the narrative and speak to the themes of the past and regret?
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