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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 Madame keep repeating as Tommy and Kathy speak to her in chapter 21?

2. At what point in her donation cycle did Chrissie die?

3. In chapter 16, what does Ruth begin to forget?

4. In chapter 15, why does Kathy delay showing Tommy she has found the Judy Bridgewater tape?

5. In chapter 16, why does the narrator think she and her companions did not talk about their trip to Norfolk?

Short Essay Questions

1. In chapter 17, what changes does Kathy note about the Cottages after her rift with Ruth and Tommy?

2. What warning does Ruth offer to Kathy in chapter 17 should she ever want to pursue a relationship with Tommy?

3. Why does Kathy constantly allow Ruth to indulge her fantasies even when she knows she is wrong?

4. In chapter 21, what does Tommy tell Madame he has come to her to ask for?

5. In chapter 12, Rodney and Chrissie report seeing what person in Norfolk during a trip there?

6. In chapter 15, who does Rodney and Chrissie want to visit that Kathy refuses to see? For what reason?

7. How does Ruth react to the sight of her possible? How does she, and the others, come to believe this woman could not be her possible?

8. In chapter 13, what excuse does Ruth give to Rodney and Chrissie for Tommy's refusal to agree that there is a deferment program for lovers?

9. What does Ruth admit to Kathy in chapter 19 that she believes should have happened in their past and that she actively attempted to prevent?

10. How has Kathy's life changed in the year that has passed between chapters 19 and 20?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Kathy? What does she do for a living? What is meant by the term carer? What is a donor? How long has Kathy been working at this career? Why does she think she is better at it than others? Is she? Where did Kathy's donor, whom she is caring for at the beginning of the book, grow up? Where did Kathy grow up? How do the two locations compare? How do they differ?

Essay Topic 2

What are Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth? How do they come to understand the truth of their situation? How much time passes between Kathy's time at the Cottage and her next meeting with Ruth? How does Ruth respond when she discovers that Kathy has become her carer? What do they talk about in the beginning of their reunion? Why do they go to see a marooned boat? Who do they take with them? What does this say about the relationship between Ruth and Kathy now?

Essay Topic 3

What is the Cottages? Why do Ruth, Tommy and Kathy move there? What do the older residents at the Cottages teach these three? What social problems does Kathy have at the Cottages? What desires does she feel that causes her to feel different from those around her? How are Ruth and Tommy treated at the Cottages? Does this cause tension between Kathy and Ruth? Explain.

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