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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 two words are repeated in the lullaby Ellen's mother sings to her?
2. What does Jonathan say Ellen smells like?
3. What does Kate say is her mother's opinion of Austen?
4. What color is the sweater Ellen is wearing in the front page story about her arrest?
5. What are the limits Dr. Cohn puts on Kate's activities?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Teresa say about Kate's bathing?
2. What does Ellen say about putting the futon into her mother's home?
3. How did Jonathan and his father come to live in Langhorne?
4. Briefly describe the conversation that occurs as Kate and her guests try to decide on a color scheme for decorating the Christmas trees?
5. What are some of the noises Ellen hears while she's in jail?
6. Describe Kate's role in the early days of her marriage to George.
7. What does Ellen say about the way people greeted Ellen and Kate?
8. What is Ellen's response when Dr. Cohn suggests that it's time to consider hospice or a hospital?
9. What does Ellen expect she'll find with regard to her mother's physical condition and what does she actually find?
10. Describe Ellen's brothers.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Ellen and her father clash over his insistence that she remain at home with her mother. Describe the arguments of each. Are their arguments valid? Why or why not? What were the possible alternatives? George says Ellen being at home is the only acceptable option. Was he correct? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
What is the most important scene in the book? Why? Why is that scene effective? Which is more important to that scene: the action or the setting? Why?
Essay Topic 3
The question of assisted suicide is one that has raised moral and legal questions in recent years. Do you believe that assisted suicide should be legal and is it morally acceptable? Why or why not?
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