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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. About how old was Hal in the photograph featuring herself and her mother?
2. About how many years before the narrative present had Hal taken out a loan from Mr. Smith?
3. Each of Mitzi and Harding's children is awarded how many thousands of pounds from their grandmother Hester Westaway?
4. Which character uses their medical training to examine Hal in Chapter 15?
5. In whose honor does Hal say she had gotten a tattoo of a bird?
Short Essay Questions
1. In what way does Hal turn her fear of meeting the Westaway family to her advantage?
2. Name one main theme introduced by the novel's epigraph in The Death of Mrs. Westaway.
3. Which elements of Hal's accommodations within Trepassen House does Hal find creepy?
4. For what occasion must the Westaway family travel to Penzance together and how do they get there?
5. How did the drastic change just before Hal's 18th birthday transform her life?
6. How and why does Abel's reaction to the news about the inheritance differ from his brother Harding's reaction?
7. Who is Mrs. Warren?
8. What are the contents of Hester Westaway's will?
9. How does the reader come to find out that Maud and the writer of the diary had been cousins?
10. What alarming development happens at the funeral for Hester Westaway?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Discuss Ware’s use of the motif of sound within the novel The Death of Mrs. Westaway.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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