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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 Victoria's professor?

2. What is the newspaper editor's last name?

3. What was the peddler's first name?

4. According to chapter 10, Daisy had a collection of what?

5. As he is dying, Cuyler decides to stop building what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Daisy seem to feel about dying?

2. Describe what sort of attitude Daisy has and how this is shown in what she leaves behind.

3. Why do you think Daisy changed her mind and took Beverly in?

4. How does stone play a role in chapter ten?

5. How does Daisy make use of her imagination in chapter ten?

6. What do you feel Daisy's bridge group symbolizes?

7. Describe how Alice decides to change the course of her life, in chapter seven, and what theme it continues.

8. What changes about the way Daisy handles her own mental state in chapter seven?

9. Who is Skoot Skutari and how does he relate to the story?

10. What does Reverend Rick seem to symbolize?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

It's clear that Daisy's imagination plays a key role in the story. Choose any portion of the book that you feel was mostly built on Daisy's own imaginings and describe why you feel that way. Then, describe how you feel that part of the book might have actually happened, without Daisy's embellishments. Also, using an example from your own life, explain how you think embellishing a situation or "spinning the facts" can be good or bad.

Essay Topic 2

All of Daisy's family members and friends volunteer possible reasons for Daisy's depression at some point. Explain, in detail, what your own opinion is on the reason that Daisy falls into a depression. Also, if you concur with one or more of Daisy's friends and family members, list which people you agree with and use examples from the story to illustrate why you agree with those people.

Essay Topic 3

Choose any one of the following characters and explain, using several details from the story, what psychological problems they suffer from. Also, explain how they each deal with their problems and whether or not you agree with their methods, as well as your reason for agreeing or disagreeing with them.

Cuyler

Mercy

Barker

Harold

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