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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 is NOT one of Florence's duties in her part-time job at Wigmore Hall?
2. What color are Edward's eyes?
3. When Edward plans to write a series of short biographies, whom does he choose as his first subject?
4. During what decade does the couple's wedding take place?
5. What college does Florence attend?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the significance of Florence's feelings about the word "penetration"? (8)
2. What phenomenon does Florence witness when it comes to girls her age getting boyfriends and how does her realization shape her behavior?
3. How is the theme of misunderstanding portrayed within the narrator's explanation of Edward's mistaking Florence's shyness "for a form of coyness" (25)?
4. How is irony employed within the narrator's description of the moment Edward asks Florence to marry him?
5. What distinction does the narrator make between Florence's wedding night anxieties and Edward's wedding night anxieties?
6. What is the author's purpose for including the detail that on the cover of Florence's paperback guide for brides is "portrayed two smiling bug-eyed matchstick figures holding hands, drawn clumsily in white chalk, as though by an innocent child" (12)?
7. What does the television set symbolize within the narrative?
8. What is the result of Edward's suggestion that the couple go downstairs to listen to the news on the radio properly?
9. What beliefs does Edward draw from listening to blues music at the Hundred Club?
10. What example does the author provide to support the claim that Florence has come to find life within her family home as unbearably oppressive?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Sensory details are used frequently by the author in order to create vivid pictures of the lives of Florence and Edward. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used by the author set a particular mood for each of the three scenes.
Essay Topic 2
Analyze the interplay between the resolution of the novella and the author's choice of narrator to relay the narrative. How does the author employ each and how does their juxtaposition help the author get across the main messages of the novella?
Essay Topic 3
Explicate the theme of shame within the novella, particularly in relation to the novel's female protagonist. What is the author's message regarding the emotion of shame and how do you know?
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