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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 "I Stay with Syd," what do some people go and do while they wait to get back inside the theater?

2. in "Doll Tornado," where does a tornado of dolls touch down?

3. At the end of "I Stay with Syd," what does the narrator want to hurry up and end?

4. How long do the narrator, Syd, and the others have to wait before they can go back inside the theater, in "I Stay with Syd"?

5. How often does the narrator of "A Full Service Shelter" clean cages?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator say about cleaning cages?

2. How are the dogs put down?

3. What are the dolls like in the "Doll Tornado"?

4. In "Sing to It," what does the man want and what does he get?

5. What does the narrator know about being angry about the affair in "Greed"?

6. How did Lauryn and Macario spend the summer they were married?

7. How does the narrator spy on her husband and Mrs. Greed?

8. In "The Chicane," what does the narrator say about going to a film?

9. What does the narrator say about the affair between Syd and a married man?

10. How does the narrator treat the death-row dogs?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The house in “Cloudland” is decaying and needs a lot of repairs. In what way is the house an analogy for the narrator’s state of mind?

Essay Topic 2

Mood is an element that authors use to evoke feelings in readers through the use of descriptive language. Mood is the overall feeling that readers have when reading a story. What is the overall mood of the stories and the book?

Essay Topic 3

In “The Second Seating,” friends meet to remember a friend who has died. Who is the friend who has died? What last wishes did he have that he wanted his wife and his friends to carry out? What is communicated about last wishes and memorials through his instructions?

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