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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 kind of employee is James Clancy?

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

3. What frustrates Louise?

4. Which story is about Evarts and Alice Malloy?

5. Who tries to get James Clancy fired?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Amy try to run away?

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

3. What is the background of the relationship between Ralph and Laura Whittemore?

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

5. Describe Cash's and Louise's marriage.

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

7. How do Ralph and Laura react to a Ralph's new job and potential raise in salary?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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 3

What is the narrator's outlook on life and her neighbors lives in "The Worm in the Apple?"

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