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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 time did Ditlevsen leave for work in "Youth," Chapter 1?

2. What time did Ditlevsen have to be at work in Chapter 6?

3. In Chapter 17, when did Ditlevsen get an appointment to meet with an editor at Social-Demokraten?

4. In Chapter 3, where did Jytte work?

5. Where did Ditlevsen get a job in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Ditlevsen meet Mr. Krogh, and why did she start visiting him?

2. What obituary did Ditlevsen see in Chapter 2, and why did it bother her?

3. Why was Ditlevsen fired from the nursing supply company?

4. How did Ditlevsen get an appointment with an editor at Social-Demokraten?

5. What did Ditlevsen say about her grandmother in Chapter 9?

6. What part did Gammeltorv want Ditlevsen to have for his next play, and why did she refuse?

7. Why did Ditlevsen go home to her mother with Toni in Chapter 1?

8. Why was it said that Uncle Peter killed Granny?

9. What was Ditlevsen's job like in Chapter 6?

10. Why was Ditlevsen allowed to go to middle school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mr. Krogh told Ditlevsen that “People always want something from each other” (121). What did Ditlevsen want from Mr. Krogh? What did he want from her? How did they use one another? Did Ditlevsen tend to use people with whom she had relationships?

Essay Topic 2

Ditlevsen had a series of jobs after she left school. What jobs did she hold? How did these jobs affect her identity?

Essay Topic 3

When Ditlevsen saw that Editor Brochmann had died, it was "the hardest day of her life" (111). Why was it the hardest day of her life? Why did the information cause depression?

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