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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. In Early Days, Part 1, Chapter 10, what news did Tracey tell the narrator and her father?

2. In Chapter 6 of Early and Late, what would the narrator do when she played with Lily?

3. In Early and Late, Chapter 3, what color clothes did the narrator buy to wear when she met Aimee?

4. In Chapter 5 of Early and Late, how long after the narrator began working for Aimee, did Aimee say that it was not working?

5. In Early Days, Part 1, Chapter 13, what did the narrator's mother do?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Intermission, Chapter 2, how did Aimee have an unusual attitude to time?

2. In Early Days, Chapter 1, how did the narrator meet Tracey and how did she describe Tracey?

3. In Early Days, Chapter 3, why did the narrator have to stay out of their flat until dinner time?

4. What did the narrator and Aimee remember about their meeting and how it lead to Aimee hiring the narrator in Part 2, Chapter 3 of Early and Late?

5. At the end of Part 2, Chapter 1 in Early and Late, what did the narrator's mom do and how did the girls react?

6. What happened to YTV, where the narrator had worked?

7. In Part 2, Chapter 6 of Early and Late, what was revealed about Tracey's father?

8. In Intermission, Chapter 1, what did Aimee help create?

9. In Intermission, Chapter 1, what did Aimee believe would make a real change in the world?

10. In Early Days, Chapter 6, what was Tracey's bedroom like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The novel is told from the point of view of the narrator. How does the point of view of the novel determine what readers know about events and characters? How does the point of view affect what readers think of the narrator? How does the point of view affect the plot?

Essay Topic 2

Fern made a comment that “with wealth you get to be thoughtless” (253). Why did Fern make that comment? What did he mean by that comment? How did that comment reflect on Aimee’s work in Africa?

Essay Topic 3

One time when barhopping with Aimee, the narrator ended up singing with the piano player. Why did Aimee imply that the song revealed that the narrator was not a happy person? Why did the incident cause a rift between the two women? What did the narrator singing symbolize?

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