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

2. Daisy envisions her final words as what?

3. Who believes that Daisy is upset because Jay didn't want to marry her?

4. What is Beverly's relationship to Victoria?

5. What is the name of the writer who takes over Daisy's column?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Daisy react to losing her job?

2. Which of Daisy's children comes to care for her, in chapter nine, and is that unusual?

3. Describe the change of focus in chapter six.

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

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

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

7. Based on everything you've read up to the end of chapter nine, do you feel that Daisy was a good wife and mother?

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

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

10. In chapter nine, it seems like everyone is married and has children. What is the symbolism of that?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Love is important, both in the book and in real life.

Part 1. Do you think that either of Daisy's husbands loved her? Why or why not?

Part 2. Do you think that Daisy's father loved her? Why or why not?

Part 3. Do you think that Daisy herself had the capacity to love anyone? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Choose any one of the following characters from the story and explain their role in the book. When and how were they introduced? How did they evolve as the story progressed? Also, what, if anything, do you think they symbolize and why? Be sure to use several examples from the book to support your answers.

Beans

Fraidy

Pinky

Harold

Jay

Essay Topic 3

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?

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