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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 5, what was the narrator watching girls doing down by the bins?

2. In Chapter 6 of Early and Late, who did the narrator play with instead of Tracey?

3. At the end of Intermission, Part 3, Chapter 2, where did Aimee ask the narrator if something happened?

4. In Intermission, Part 3, Chapter 3, how long did Aimee say that she had known Judy?

5. In Early and Late, Chapter 1, what did the narrator wear to Lily's birthday part?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Part 2, Chapter 5 of Early and Late, why did the narrator not want children?

4. In Intermission, Chapter 4, what did the narrator remember about her father's funeral?

5. In Early Days, Chapter 8, what would happen when the narrator's mother would try to cook?

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

7. In Early and Late, Part 2, Chapter 1, What was the sleeve of the single like that the narrator and Tracey bought for a birthday present?

8. In Early Days, Chapter 2, how did the narrator describe the church and the neighborhood where she had dance lessons?

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

10. At the end of Intermission, Chapter 2, what did Aimee ask the narrator?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The narrator intended to do something about Tracey’s children at the end of the novel. Why did she intend to do something about Tracey’s children? What did she see Tracey doing with her children? What did seeing the family dancing make the narrator realize? How did that scene affect the narrator and her plans?

Essay Topic 2

When money was stolen from Miss Isabel’s dance school, Tracey was immediately a suspect. Why was Tracey a suspect, but the narrator was not? How did class and family differences determine who was a suspect and who was not?

Essay Topic 3

The narrator and Tracey watched a 1936 movie titled Swing Time. What did the movie represent to the girls? What did it symbolize? How was the fact that the author used the title of the movie as the book title symbolic?

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