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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 is NOT an emotion Hal feels as she looks at pictures of the Westaway family's opulent lifestyle?
2. 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?
3. Hal's mother mentioned that Hal's father had sported what kind of accent?
4. In Chapter 17, Hal mistakenly wanders into rooms belonging to whom?
5. In Chapter 16, Hal receives a threatening text message from one of Mr. Smith's lackeys that states only which two words?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the theme of trust enter the narrative within the diary entry featured at the end of Chapter 10?
2. How does the reader come to find out that Maud and the writer of the diary had been cousins?
3. What two metaphors having to do with games and sports does Hal conjure up when thinking about her plan to deceive the Westaway family?
4. Describe Hal's job.
5. What severe mistake does Hal nearly make when talking to Freddie, Harding's 12-year-old son, for the first time?
6. In what way does Ware join together the themes of free will and responsibility?
7. For what reason is Hal herself dismayed when the contents of Hester Westaway's will are revealed?
8. Discuss an instance when Ware uses personification to suggest the qualities of Trepassen House.
9. What drastic change in Hal's life occurred just before her 18th birthday?
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
Discuss Ware's choice to tell the story of The Death of Mrs. Westaway using a third person omniscient narrator. What elements of the novel's themes lend themselves to this choice and what are Ware’s intended effects on the reader?
Essay Topic 2
Write a critical essay about The Death of Mrs. Westaway while using the critical power theory lens of feminist theory. Use textual evidence to back up your strong, specific claim regarding the novel's treatment of gender roles, the objectification of women, female empowerment, misogyny's role within society, or any other issues related to feminist theory that can be found in the novel.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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