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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. Who leaves the table at the hotel?

2. To whom is Gertrude married?

3. What does Brian advise Irene to do relative to Clare?

4. Who is in the most jeopardy?

5. How does John Bellew feel about black people?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What name does John Bellew, Clare's husband, call his wife? Why?

3. How does Brian and Irene's trip to the printer's business turn out? Who leaves mad?

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

5. What made it easy for Clare to pass as white?

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

7. What is Irene's intention in bring up Junior's problems?

8. What do Brian and Irene discuss while they eat breakfast?

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

10. What does Brian tell Irene about someone who can pass for white?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the emotions Irene displays in these chapters.

a) Why does she drop the tea cup?

b) Why doesn't she confide in Hugh Wentworth about her suspicions?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Summarize Part 1, Chapter 3 which describes how Clare and Irene renew their relationship.

a) Why is Irene reluctant to meet with Clare?

b) How does Clare convince Irene to accept her as a friend?

c) What are signs that Clare is very aggressive?

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