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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 did L tell Kurt about becoming a writer?

2. Who was Candy?

3. What did Justine ask her mother when she tried to hug her after Tony had told her Justine needed her love?

4. What did M realize about the mural Brett and L were making on the walls of the second place?

5. How did M feel as Justine grew more and more independent?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Justine's relationship with Brett change her?

2. Why did the family gather in the living room one night while M fixed it up extra nice in case L joined them?

3. How did M feel as she got dressed for her portrait sitting? What did she wear? What did happened between her and Tony?

4. How old was Justine when M returned from Paris when her marriage ended? Why did M not see her daughter for a year?

5. How did Kurt treat Justine when they first stayed a the main house?

6. How did Justine and Tony's desire to get a dog make M feel?

7. Where would M watch her daughter when she was young and M was unable to see her? What did her husband do and say when he spotted M? What did M do not long after that day?

8. What new career path does Kurt decide he is going to take? What does he do to prepare?

9. Why does M find it interesting that Kurt is able to speak so freely with L?

10. What did Kurt tell M about L the day after his reading? What advice did L give to Kurt regarding Justine? What did Kurt warn M that L had said to him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose a character and discuss their role in creating conflict in the story.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay exploring the central purpose of this story. What response do you think the author hoped to get from her readers? Do you think she was successful? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay analyzing the symbolic significance M's family's economic status has on the story. Why is this important and how does it develop the themes of the story? What would be different if her family were poor? Use examples from the text to support your viewpoint.

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