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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 Jonathan say when Ellen says she's going home to take care of her mother?
2. Why does Ellen cut the tag out of the dress she buys for Kate?
3. What color is Ellen's room?
4. Where did Stevie die?
5. When George was talking to Ellen as a child, what does he say "A" is for?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Jonathan's relationship with his mother?
2. How did Jonathan and his father come to live in Langhorne?
3. 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?
4. List at least three details Ellen recalls about the hospital where her mother was given chemotherapy.
5. What does Ellen say about the way people greeted Ellen and Kate?
6. What are the reactions of Brian and Jeff to their mother's appearance when they come home for Thanksgiving?
7. Briefly describe the conversation that occurs as Kate and her guests try to decide on a color scheme for decorating the Christmas trees?
8. What does Teresa say about Kate's bathing?
9. In the prologue, what does Ellen say is the truth about her mother's death?
10. What does Ellen expect she'll find with regard to her mother's physical condition and what does she actually find?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
Describe Ellen's relationship with her mother, her father and her siblings. Who among these is she closer to? Why?
Essay Topic 3
Ellen and her mother are, in many ways, opposites. Compare the characters and Ellen and Kate. What are their most striking differences? Similarities? How and why do their characters change over the course of the story?
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