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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 Ellen say about her mother's loss of vision?
2. What color is the suit Ellen buys to wear to the funeral?
3. What movie does Ellen watch the evening she's home alone?
4. What does Ellen say her mother had nightmares about?
5. What are the rumors Mark says are going around about Mrs. Forburg?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Ellen's reaction when Jeff makes fun of her for baking cookies and why does she react this way?
2. Describe the scene in which George is feeding Kate rice pudding. What does Ellen believe is happening?
3. Who is Chris and what happens between Chris and Ellen?
4. What does Ellen say when Jeff asks if hallucinations are a side-effect of Kate's medication?
5. What does Teresa say when Ellen asks if she's curious as to why George is never home?
6. What is Jon's role in Ellen's arrest?
7. What changes on the day when Kate calls for Ellen to help her out of the tub?
8. What does Ellen think about when Jeff asks if she has a message for Jon? What is her message?
9. What does Ellen say to Mrs. Duane when she says that she's been meaning to visit Kate?
10. Why does Ellen ask Jules not to come to the funeral?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who is it that comes to Ellen's rescue after Ellen's arrest? What is her role in Ellen's life? Why does she take on this new role after Ellen's arrest? What are the repercussions and are they justified?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
What is Kate's reaction the first time she sees the wheelchair? Why does she react in this way? Why does she later accept the wheelchair? What does Ellen do to "decorate" the chair for the trip to decorate the Christmas tree? What is the reaction of the other women? Why do they react in that way? Later a little girl named Hattie compliments Kate on the wheelchair but her father reprimands her. Why?
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