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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 guests facing in Esther's dining room?

2. How does Bambi travel to Manhattan?

3. Which two women are the lesbians in the group?

4. What do the women wear to Canoe's party?

5. What type of art did Walter do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Bambi's Breaks for Freedom.

2. What is especially alarming about Esther's lunch invitation on the anniversary of Walter's death?

3. Describe the metaphor of fish as the women trash around the pool.

4. What had the women done today that made it such a sad one?

5. Describe the scenario of the failed intervention attempt.

6. Who is Him?

7. How do Esther's friends react to her lunch invitation?

8. Explain what most of the women share at this point in their lives.

9. What does Him symbolize for the women?

10. Describe the practice intervention.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Him with Pips Phelp. What are their roles within the group of women? What is the trust factor with the women? What are the reasons the women love each of these men who are so dramatically different?

Essay Topic 2

In "Intervention" the author writes, "We have seen a lot, it's true, but know so little. How were we to learn? Years ago we were led down the primrose lane, then abandoned somewhere near the carp pond. Suffice it to say there is little nourishment here and the carp have grown strange cancers. When we look in their pond we see them beneath our own watery faces." What does the author want the reader to take away from these statements? What is your interpretation of the statements? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

What do the women mean by "Beginning of the End" when they tell each other their life stories? Viv is the last to tell her "Beginning of the End" story and it seems most appropriate for all the women whose endings actually began at the beginnings. What does the author mean by this?

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