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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 title of the story about Amy Lawton?

2. What does Jim promise Irene?

3. Who is Mrs. Pomeroy married to?

4. What is Cash's injury?

5. What kind of story is the one with Irene and Jim Westcott?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Ralph and Laura Whittemore feel about money?

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

3. How is Clarissa described in "The Chaste Clarissa?"

4. Who does the Pomeroy family consist of?

5. Why is Ralph trying to get new jobs and promotions?

6. What kind of a housekeeper is Rosemary?

7. What are the Pomeroys feelings about seeing each other at Laud's Head?

8. What is the relationship between the Pomeroy children?

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

10. How does the story of Irene and Jim Westcott get its name?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the motivation for the secretary to stalk Blake. Do you think she was trying to get back at him for taking advantage of her or did she have serious mental issues? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

How does assumption play a role in the story about the Seton family and the Italians?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Louise's feelings before and after the accident with Cash. How does Cash's tyranny motivate those feelings?

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