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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 food item do they want to lure Lionel out of the boat with?

2. What does Lionel promise his mother recently?

3. How many total teeth are pulled from the narrator's mouth throughout the story, De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period?

4. Why does it take Esme so long to write her first letter to the narrator?

5. Who do the goggles that are thrown overboard once belong to?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the pickles, key chain and goggles tell us about Lionel?

2. Why is the narrator so taken with Sister Irma?

3. Why is the narrator so taken by Esme?

4. How does the story, Down at the Dinghy, end?

5. Why does the tea room likely suit the narrator as a place to spend his last few hours in the town rather than the Red Cross recreation room?

6. Describe the narrator in For Esme -- with Love and Squalor.

7. Why is Sandra so worried about Lionel when he runs away in Down at the Dinghy?

8. Why does the narrator like the bulletin board outside the church so much in For Esme -- with Love and Squalor?

9. Why does Arthur call Lee in the first place of Pretty Mouth and Green my Eyes?

10. Why does Lionel run away so often?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast your favorite and least favorite characters in the book. Use specific examples from the book to explain what you do and do not like about each character.

Essay Topic 2

Why is Eloise so consumed by her daughter's imaginary friends in the story, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut? Why is she so eager for the imaginary friends to go away? Why are both imaginary friends male? Does that affect Eloise's hatred of them? Use examples from the story to explain your answers.

Essay Topic 3

The wealthy and bored housewife character is written about in a couple of the short stories in Salinger's collection. Explore this character by comparing and contrasting the women. What do they have in common? Why is this a returning type of character in the collection?

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