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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 does Dolores experience for the first time while Larry and Ruth are staying with her?

2. What evidence does Marcia give Naomi for not being prejudiced?

3. What does Dolores' father do with the nursery furniture after her mother loses the baby?

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

5. Why does Dolores' grandmother refer to the Pysyk twins as "displaced persons"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Dolores like developing photographs?

2. How does Dolores receive the few things that she seeks in the divorce?

3. What does Dolores' mother accuse her husband of regarding Mrs. Masicotte?

4. What brings Dolores and Dante back together after she kicks him out of the house?

5. How does Dottie feel about Dolores?

6. Describe Dolores and Mr. Pucci's reconnection after she delivers food to his apartment.

7. Why does Dolores write that she loves Dante?

8. Why does Dante say that he doesn't want to have children?

9. Describe the scene of the house when Dante drops off the black-and-white television set.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

How does the rape that Dolores suffers influence her actions later in life?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the relationship that Dolores has with food. How is the relationship helpful or hurtful? How does it change?

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