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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 many years before the narrative present had Hal taken out a loan from Mr. Smith?
2. In what century was the oldest part of Trepassen House constructed, according to Harding?
3. Why does Hal run after the client who has just departed in Chapter 6?
4. In what month does the narrative begin?
5. The charitable donations box shaped like an ice cream cone changes in what way as Hal walks away from it in Chapter 6?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Hal's job.
2. What drastic change in Hal's life occurred just before her 18th birthday?
3. How did the drastic change just before Hal's 18th birthday transform her life?
4. In what way does Ware join together the themes of free will and responsibility?
5. What severe mistake does Hal nearly make when talking to Freddie, Harding's 12-year-old son, for the first time?
6. For what reason is Hal herself dismayed when the contents of Hester Westaway's will are revealed?
7. What two metaphors having to do with games and sports does Hal conjure up when thinking about her plan to deceive the Westaway family?
8. 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)?
9. What alarming development happens at the funeral for Hester Westaway?
10. How does the reader come to find out that Maud and the writer of the diary had been cousins?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Choose an object from The Death of Mrs. Westaway, such as the magpies, Maggie’s diary, or some other symbolic object and discuss its overall meaning and its connection to themes within the text.
Essay Topic 2
Could The Death of Mrs. Westaway be classified as a coming-of-age story? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Ware’s use of the motif of sound within the novel The Death of Mrs. Westaway.
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