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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 major revelation does Hal make to the Westaway brothers in Chapter 37?
2. What year is included in all diary entries presented within the text?
3. When Hal leaves Trepassen House in the middle of the night, she crawls out of a window in which room?
4. What kind of accent is Lizzie said to have?
5. What intention does Hal announce within her voicemail message to Harding?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe a chapter that acts as a builder of tension and then as a diffuser of tension, for the purposes of maintaining suspense throughout the work.
2. For what reason do Ezra and Hal arrive late to the appointment with Mr. Treswick?
3. What feelings does Hal express to Ezra about the prospect of finding her biological father and how do they differ from her true feelings?
4. What does Hal find out when she speaks with Lizzie?
5. What objects does Hal drop on the ground in Chapter 23 and what information about her is revealed to Ezra at that moment?
6. When Hal gets back to her flat in Brighton in Chapter 28 and finds a diary in the box under her bed, what does she learn?
7. To which two questions is Hal determined to find the answers by returning to Trepassen House?
8. What knowledge causes Hal to feel angry toward her beloved late mother?
9. What does Hal decide in Chapter 33 about Mrs. Warren's reason for staying silent about the identity of Hal's mother and why does her conclusion frighten her?
10. Who confronts Hal when she is making her escape from Trepassen House by way of the drawing room window and what do they say?
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
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 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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