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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. Where is Irene seated at the hotel?

2. How does Irene react to her husband's thoughts about Clare?

3. Whom does Irene try to ignore?

4. What does Brian think is appropriate for Junior to learn?

5. What does the conflict between Brian and Irene indicate?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who interrupts Irene when she is reading Clare's letter? What did the letter keep her from doing?

2. What are John Bellew's real feelings about black people?

3. Why did Irene's father keep it from Irene that Clare was passing for white?

4. Where does Irene travel to the day after her meeting with Clare? How does Irene first respond to Clare's note?

5. Whom else did Clare invite along when she meets Irene? What do Clare and the other guest have in common?

6. When did Clare disappear from the Chicago neighborhood where she and Irene lived?

7. Where does Irene ask Brian to drive her to? What business does she intend to take care of?

8. When did Irene become reacquainted with her childhood friend, Clare Kendry? What were the circumstances?

9. What does Clare tell Irene in the note she sent to Irene?

10. How do Irene and Gertrude feel after they leave the meeting with Clare and John?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how Irene reacts to John.

a) What is Irene's reaction to his racist remarks?

b) What do Irene and Gertrude discuss after they part with John and Clare?

c) What does Irene feel for Clare?

Essay Topic 2

What are physical descriptions of Irene and Clare? What indications are there that both women are light-skinned?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss why Irene is reluctant to resume her friendship with Clare.

a) What jealousy and resentment existed between the two women?

b) What past resentments may be lingering in Irene?

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