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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. Which character pulls Hal into a hug upon meeting her in Chapter 12?
2. How many people are featured in the only photograph Abel gives to Hal?
3. In Chapter 20, Hal overhears Harding telling Mitzi that which character had included the words "Apres moi, le deluge" (163) in her final letter to him?
4. One of the reasons Hal believes the letter about Trepassen House to have been a mistake is because her maternal grandmother's first name had been what?
5. Mr. Treswick tells the family that which character has been awarded 30,000 pounds in the will of Hester Westaway?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is Mrs. Warren?
2. Discuss an instance when Ware uses personification to suggest the qualities of Trepassen House.
3. For what occasion must the Westaway family travel to Penzance together and how do they get there?
4. What distinction does Hal make between two different types of her clientele?
5. Discuss an instance when Ware uses a simile to indicate a violent emotional reaction.
6. Name one main theme introduced by the novel's epigraph in The Death of Mrs. Westaway.
7. In what way does Hal turn her fear of meeting the Westaway family to her advantage?
8. How does the reader come to find out that Maud and the writer of the diary had been cousins?
9. For what reason is Hal herself dismayed when the contents of Hester Westaway's will are revealed?
10. What drastic change in Hal's life occurred just before her 18th birthday?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze the ways in which the themes of adaptability and resignation appear within Ware’s novel The Death of Mrs. Westaway. What message is Ware sending about these two themes over the course of the narrative?
Essay Topic 2
Read a lengthy interview with Ware. Write an essay explaining the connection between several of Ware’s answers and a major theme presented within the text of The Death of Mrs. Westaway.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the messages sent about the theme of appearance versus reality within The Death of Mrs. Westaway.
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