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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 is the name of Viv's husband?

2. Which of the following did not set a precedent for Viv's life?

3. What happens to Professor Dipple?

4. What does Canoe serve that the women and girls devour?

5. Which one of the girls is taken home for using profanity?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Viv reconcile leaving school and getting married?

2. Why does the photographer leave and then return?

3. What is the setting of this section?

4. What do the girls and women do after they have had sandwiches and cake?

5. What was Viv's decision-making process about her life's direction?

6. How did Viv sell herself out by giving in to societal norms?

7. What do the women mean about the beginning of the end?

8. Describe the sad Christmas spent by the women at the hospice.

9. Why will the women spend Christmas at the hospice?

10. What is the reason for the party Canoe is hosting today?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the role of married women in the 1950s when the women in the novel are beginning their married lives. What precedents do they feel compelled to follow? What restrictions do the have? What freedoms did they have that 21st century women do not have?

Essay Topic 2

Create a brief character study on Esther. What does she look like? What are her positive personality traits? What are some of her negative characteristics? What are her hopes and fears? What motivates her--if anything--at this point in her life?

Essay Topic 3

As you might expect from the title, the author provides the perspective of how girls and women view the world. Choose two situations in the book which also involve men or boys and create a brief synopsis of how the males viewed the same situations.

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