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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. Which of the rabbit's organs does Frankie show Dolores?

2. What does Frankie think Joe acts like twelve years after they met?

3. What does Joe teach Frankie?

4. What is the social worker's name?

5. Where did Frankie get a job when he turned 20?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dolores overhear at the store?

2. Why does Frankie's theft of the household money cause such a problem for Mary?

3. What does the adult Dolores think about as she sits in her mother's empty house?

4. What does Dolores say she often think about when she remembers the night of the fire?

5. How do the neighbors help Mary after the fire?

6. How does Joe's proposal make Frankie doubt himself and his family?

7. Describe the living conditions in Dolores's Cardiff home.

8. How does Celesta come to the decision to marry Pippo?

9. How does Dolores find the picture of Joe?

10. What does Frankie think about at the end of the chapter?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the novel's chronological setting.

1. What were the main concerns during the 1960s? How does the author express these concerns?

2. How would the author change the novel if it was set in today's society?

Essay Topic 2

All four sisters have a difficult relationship with their mother. Why is a mother's relationship with her child so important? How has the four sisterss relationship with their mother affected them?

Essay Topic 3

Why is memory not necessarily accurate? Bearing in mind how much Dolores's get wrong in her relationship with her sisters, how much can the reader trust the passages Dolores has narrated ?

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