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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 which state is Jack offered a job?

2. What does Sarah wear to the Easter Parade?

3. Why does Emily find Jack's book difficult?

4. Who is Sarah's project going to be about in Part 2: Chapter 1?

5. What is Emily frightened of when Sarah tells her she is going to a game?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Emily's success with her career and work ethic impressive?

2. What does Tony think of Sarah's writing?

3. Who is Jack Flanders?

4. Describe Pookie and Emily's visit to the country cottage where Sarah lives in Part 1: Chapter 3.

5. In Part 1: Chapters 1 through 2, what are the differences between Emily and Sarah?

6. In Part 1: Chapter 2, why is Emily scolded for being childish?

7. Do Emily and Andrew have a happy marriage?

8. What are the negative effects of choosing an authorial voice versus a character as narrator?

9. How can all of the writers as characters be described in Part 2: Chapter 2?

10. Describe Andrew and Emily's relationship in Part 1: Chapter 4.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Several characters in The Easter Parade are writers. What are their attitudes towards writing? Are they successful as writers? Do they share any of the same traits? Discuss writers as characters.

Essay Topic 2

What are the family dynamics in The Easter Parade? Compare family life from the beginning of the text to the end. Compare the Grimes family to the Wilson family.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss time. Yates starts in Tenafly, NY in the 1930s and travels decades over the course of the novel. The novel, just over 200 pages, spans nearly the entirety of Emily and Sarah's lives. Which parts could have been sped up? Slowed down?

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