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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. Why does Dolores want to get a ride to school from Jack?

2. What does Dolores take with her when she flees from the dorm before going to Dottie's house?

3. What do the dance attendees do while Dolores is being accosted?

4. Why does Dolores' father get her mother the parakeet?

5. What is the name of Mrs. Masicotte's dog?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Dolores' grandmother feel about her going to college?

2. What do Dolores, her mother and her grandmother think of Jack and Rita Speight?

3. How does Dolores feel emotionally while attending the prom?

4. Why does Dolores write that she loves Dante?

5. How does Dante act towards Dolores while at her Grandmother's house?

6. How does Dolores feel back in her grandmother's house with her grandmother's friends?

7. How does Dolores react to her mother's nightly walks and why?

8. What kind of a life does Dolores invent for herself through her letters to Kippy?

9. Why does Dolores' mother want her to go to college?

10. What does her Etch-a-Sketching mean to Dolores?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the relationships Dolores has with Dante and that which she has with Thayer.

Essay Topic 2

How does the theme of love appear throughout the text?

Essay Topic 3

How are the mourning processes that Dolores experiences with her mother and grandmother's deaths similar or different?

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