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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 color is the flower Mary snaps off and puts in the doctor's buttonhole?

2. How many countries has Rosicky lived in?

3. What does Mr. Rosicky smell when he enters the kitchen?

4. What is the name of the girl that waits on Mr. Rosicky?

5. What is the color of the stripes that the ticking has that Mr. Rosicky buys?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were Mary and Anton doing on the Fourth of July when it was so hot that it burned up everything?

2. After Rudolph and Polly leave for town what does Rosicky do?

3. What does Rosicky reflect on as he is looking out his window and listening to the wind blow?

4. What did the Methodist preacher encounter when he came to the Rosicky home?

5. Describe the Lifschnitz home.

6. What does Rosicky do when he leaves Doctor Burleigh's office?

7. Where did Rosicky live in New York?

8. What happened when Anton tried to find his cousin in London?

9. Describe the Rosicky home as Mary and Anton enter it.

10. Why does Doctor Ed consider the country graveyard where Rosicky is buried to be beautiful?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Doctor Burleigh thinks of a time when he delivered a baby for a neighbor of the Rosickys who were better off than the Rosicky family. Doctor Ed decides to go to the Rosicky household to have breakfast instead of lingering at the Marshalls' farm. Why do you think Doctor Ed made this decision? What is it about the Rosicky home that makes people feel welcome? What elements in describing the Rosicky home did Willa Cather use to make the reader feel "welcome"? What are the key elements that Anton uses to make people feel welcome in his home? What are the strengths that Mary has to help welcome her guests?

Essay Topic 2

During the opening lines of the story, "Neighbor Rosicky", we are introduced to Doctor Ed Burleigh. Describe Rosicky and Doctor Burleigh's relationship. Would you consider their relationship to be strictly a doctor and patient connection? Why or why not? How does Doctor Ed feel about Rosicky? How does Rosicky feel about Doctor Ed? What kind of dynamic does their relationship bring to the story?

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the story of "Neighbor Rosicky", there is always a feeling of hopefulness and of happiness even when Rosicky tells of or ponders on harder times in his life. How does Willa Cather carry the feeling of happiness through to the reader? How is Rosicky happy even though has not enjoyed too many of the finer things in life? Has Anton Rosicky missed some of what life has to offer? Why or why not? Does Rosicky pass on his happiness? If so, how and why?

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