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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 do the Bentley's struggle with?

2. Why are the Malloys traveling?

3. Why does Rosemary lose her job?

4. Who is most critical in the Pomeroy family?

5. What does James Clancy realize at the end of the story?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why don't the other Pomeroy children like Lawrence?

2. Describe the shared love of Irene and Jim Westcott.

3. In "O City of Broken Dreams," how do the Malloys react to interest in the play Evarts has written?

4. What baffles Clancy when he ends up in the hospital?

5. Why does Blake fire his secretary in "The Five Forty-Eight?"

6. What do the Pomeroy children do to irk Lawrence?

7. What is the relationship between the Pomeroy children?

8. How does Clancy do when he first starts his job in "Clancy in the Tower of Babel?"

9. What type of parents are the Lawtons, in "The Sorrows of Gin?"

10. Why does Amy try to run away?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In "The Enormous Radio," describe the changes that occur in the character of Irene when she gets a new radio. Be sure to describe her life before the new and radio and her obsessions and attitude afterward.

Essay Topic 2

How does Mr. Lawton come to the realization that he is hurting his daughter, and how did she have to suffer before her father learned that lesson?

Essay Topic 3

Define enigma and give an example of a character from Cheever's stories who embodies this literary term.

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