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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 Drouet discuss with Carrie the morning after her success in the play?

2. What does Carrie decide she must do in case Drouet does not choose to come back to her?

3. How does Hurstwood pay for the train tickets to New York?

4. What would Carrie have had to her name had she decided to leave Drouet as planned?

5. What allows Carrie to do so well after the third act of the play?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Carrie view her relationship with Drouet after she has lived with him for a little while?

2. What does Carrie tell Hurstwood he must do if he wants her to leave Drouet and be with him?

3. What does Hurstwood tell his friends to expect from the play put on by the Masons?

4. Why does Hurstwood decide to try to work out the drama with his wife the day after he storms out of his house?

5. Why was Carrie offered a job at a department store during the slow season?

6. What new feeling does Hurstwood have when he takes Drouet and Carrie to dinner after the play?

7. Where is Carrie told to look for a job after being turned down twice on her first day of searching for employment in Chicago?

8. What is Carrie's first impression of her co-workers at the shoe factory?

9. Why does Drouet call Carrie by another name when he is with the Masons?

10. What unexpected news does Drouet hear from a maid the morning after Carrie's success in the Masons' play?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role does symbolism play in the story and where does it appear? How is the plot altered by the presence of these symbols?

Essay Topic 2

Lola is a minor character whose presence made a big difference in the plot. How did she accomplish this? What are some ways that her presence, however brief, altered the outcome of the plot? What might have happened differently if Lola had not been in the book at all?

Essay Topic 3

Carrie and Mrs. Vance are very similar in nature although very different in many other areas. What are some of these intrinsic differences and similarities, and what message(s) was Dreiser was trying to send with these two characters?

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