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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 has Mr. Weimer lost?
2. In "Breath From the Depths," where does Lola ask her husband to set up her chair?
3. In "It Happens All the Time in This House," what does the son say about the Weimers?
4. In "It Happens All the Time in This House," what does the narrator offer Mr. Weimer?
5. In "None of That," who follows the mother and daughter home from the stranger's house?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator say has happened to her father in the story "None of that"?
2. In "My Parents and My Children," what does Javier think of Charly?
3. In "Breath From the Depths," what is the list part of for Lola?
4. In "Breath From the Depths," who does Lola suspect her husband has been spending time with and how does she feel about this?
5. 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?
6. In "It Happens All the Time in This House," who lives with the narrator?
7. In "None of That," what does the daughter do to try to help her mother regarding the car?
8. In the end of "My Parents and My Children," where does Javier see his parents and children?
9. Where do the narrator and her mother get stuck in "None of That"?
10. What does the mother in "None of That" steal, and what does she do with it when she gets home?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In "None of That," how does Schweblin describe and define the relationship between the mother and daughter? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
In "It Happens All the Time in This House," how and why does the narrator's attitude towards Mr. Weimer change over the course of the story? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
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