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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 Chapter 12, when Hal decides that she does not feel like an athlete after all, she decides that she instead "feels like a grandmaster before a" (90) what?
2. Who flashes a "Cheshire cat smile" (68) at Hal during the funeral for Hester Westaway?
3. How old is Hal when the novel begins?
4. What color is Hal's hair?
5. Hal often insists to her clients that the tarot cards are not what metaphorical object?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Hal's appearance.
2. Describe Hal's job.
3. Which elements of Hal's accommodations within Trepassen House does Hal find creepy?
4. Discuss an instance when Ware uses personification to suggest the qualities of Trepassen House.
5. For what occasion must the Westaway family travel to Penzance together and how do they get there?
6. How and why does Abel's reaction to the news about the inheritance differ from his brother Harding's reaction?
7. In what way does Ware join together the themes of free will and responsibility?
8. For what reason is Hal herself dismayed when the contents of Hester Westaway's will are revealed?
9. What does the narrator mean with the claim that Hal tells her clients not only what they wanted to hear, but "What they needed to know as well" (24)?
10. How did the drastic change just before Hal's 18th birthday transform her life?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What messages does Ware send about courage and what themes are employed in order to send these messages to the reader?
Essay Topic 2
Sensory details are used frequently by Ware in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative of The Death of Mrs. Westaway. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Ware’s creation of vivid characters to populate the narrative.
Essay Topic 3
What is the function of Ezra’s character within the novel? Discuss the characterization methods used by Ware in depicting Ezra and include in your discussion the reasons that Ware portrays Ezra in these particular ways.
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