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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 Intermission, Part 3, Chapter 2, how much of a book would Judy read?

2. At the end of Early and Late, Chapter 2, who did the narrator escort to a sound check at the European Music Awards?

3. In Early Days, Part 1, Chapter 6, what would the narrator and Tracey do at the narrator's house?

4. In Intermission, Part 3, Chapter 1, how are the narrator and Aimee exercising?

5. In Intermission Part 3, Chapter 1, how many miles does Aimee do?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Intermission, Chapter 3, how did the narrator describe Washington Square Park?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What did Tracey and her mother think about the narrator's interest in old songs and the piano player, Mr. Booth?

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

9. In Intermission, Chapter 4, who was Miriam?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Tracey and the narrator became friends at a dance class when they were ten. What type of a relationship did the girls have during their childhood? How did their relationship change as they approached adolescence? What type of relationship did they have as they became teens and then adults? How did their relationship change over time?

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

The narrator did not find college to be the experience she had expected. What had the narrator expected from a college experience? How did she struggle with the options she had available? Why did she feel guilty about attending college because of her upbringing?

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