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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. In "It Happens All the Time in This House," who is the neighbor?
2. In "Breath From the Depths," what does Lola usually need to cook?
3. In "Breath From the Depths," what does Lola use to help arrange her life?
4. In "Breath From the Depths," whose name does Lola not remember when she goes to the hospital?
5. In "None of That," what does the mother steal from the strangers' house?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "It Happens All the Time in This House," what does the narrator wish her own son will do at the very end of the story?
2. In "Breath From the Depths," what does Lola remember as a humiliating experience that at this point in the story, the reader does not know details of?
3. In "It Happens All the Time in This House," what does the narrator eventually find some kind of kinship with Mr. Weimer over?
4. What does the narrator tell the woman who has come looking for what the mother stole in "None of That"?
5. What does the narrator say has happened to her father in the story "None of that"?
6. In "Breath From the Depths," what unsettles Lola greatly about their neighborhood?
7. In "None of That," what does the daughter do to try to help her mother regarding the car?
8. In "It Happens All the Time in This House," who lives with the narrator?
9. In "Breath From the Depths," who does Lola suspect her husband has been spending time with and how does she feel about this?
10. What do Javier's parents do that is unusual in "My Parents and My Children"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In "Breath From the Depths," how does Schweblin depict the grief of losing a child through both the characters of Lola and Susana? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
In "My Parents and My Children," what major questions does Schweblin leave unanswered, and how does this choice affect the reader's experience? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 3
In "An Unlucky Man," how does Schweblin describe the narrator's willingness to put herself in such a potentially dangerous situation with the unnamed man, as well as the unnamed man's intentions? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
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