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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 are the limits Dr. Cohn puts on Kate's activities?
2. Which of the following is not one of the activities Ellen describes having with her mother?
3. What does Kate say she's done to cause her back to hurt?
4. Where is Jonathan's father for the Thanksgiving holiday?
5. What is the project Kate is asked to call on a young mother about?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does George say when Ellen accuses him of doing nothing to help with Kate?
2. Describe the story about Ellen that appears in the Tribune.
3. What questions does Ellen ask about the organization of the book club and what does Kate respond?
4. In the prologue, what does Ellen say is the truth about her mother's death?
5. What is Kate's reaction when she first sees the wheelchair?
6. What does Ellen expect she'll find with regard to her mother's physical condition and what does she actually find?
7. What does Ellen say tips her off to the fact that Jules has been talking to her mother and what does that say about the relationship between Jules and her mother?
8. What are Ellen's thoughts when she goes into her mother's room and sees that she's so emaciated.
9. Briefly describe the conversation that occurs when one of the women asks if George is taking time off.
10. What does Teresa say about Kate's bathing?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who is Teresa? What is her role in Ellen's life? Who i s Jules? What is her role in Ellen's life? Which of the two characters is more important to Ellen? Why?
Essay Topic 2
What do you consider to be the main theme of this story? List at least three examples of this theme, and explain why it is important.
Essay Topic 3
When Ellen and George have lunch together as her mother is becoming increasingly more dependent on pain medication, George says that it's time for them to begin planning Kate's funeral. Ellen says that her father asks too much of her and always has. What does Ellen mean? What is George's reaction? What does this say about their relationship?
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