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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 are each of Daisy's group named after?

2. What is Daisy's group known as?

3. Who owns the hotel?

4. Victoria invites Daisy to go with her and her professor to where?

5. It will be revealed to Daisy's children that Daisy's first husband died where?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In what positive way is the image of stone used in chapter eight?

3. What does Reverend Rick seem to symbolize?

4. Does Daisy seem comfortable with her life when she is in her early 70s?

5. Describe Daisy's attitude, in chapter eight, surrounding Victoria and Lewis' courtship and finding Magnus Flett

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

7. What is the overall feeling that you get from everyone's opinion of the source of Daisy's depression?

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

9. How does Daisy handle both her husband's and her father's deaths?

10. What is the relationship between Daisy and her daughter, Alice?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Harold Hoad makes a very brief appearance in the story and, in fact, Daisy doesn't even tell her children that she had a first husband.

Part 1. Why do you think that Harold was in the story?

Part 2. What do you think the story would have been like if Harold didn't exist?

Part 3. Do you think Daisy should have told her children about Harold? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Part 1: Choose and explain in detail at least three places in the story where stone was used to symbolize something positive.

Part 2: Choose and explain in detail at least three places in the story where stone was used to symbolize something negative.

Part 3: What do you think the author was trying to accomplish by using the over all symbolism of stone throughout the story?

Essay Topic 3

There is a conflict between Daisy and her daughter, Alice. Alice feels that Daisy is inferior in some way. Using examples from the story, describe whether or not you agree with Alice and the reasons behind your choice. Also, explain why you think that adult children often feel superior to their parents.

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