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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 is the name of Dolores' college roommate?

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

3. When Dolores was a baby, what did her Uncle Eddie call her?

4. What does Larry find growing in Dolores' backyard?

5. Who does Dolores call after her mother's nervous breakdown?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Dolores write that she loves Dante?

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

3. Why does Dolores begin consulting the psychic?

4. What does Roberta propose to Tommy, the owner of China Paradise?

5. What are Dolores' feelings toward Mrs. Masicotte?

6. How does Dolores react to her first class at community college?

7. How does Dolores initially deal with her father's disappearance?

8. What does the man who wallpapers Dolores' grandmother's house look like?

9. Why does Dolores kill Dottie's fish?

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

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

What role does television have on Dolores' life?

Essay Topic 3

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

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