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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. Where was the ship sailing to?

2. Whose house does Celeste take her sisters to?

3. What does Frankie build with the burned kitchen door?

4. Where does Mary hide the household money?

5. Who owned the ruby ring before Frankie?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Frankie think he does not owe Joe anything?

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

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

4. What does Mary remember about when she first moved to Cardiff?

5. What is Joe's proposal?

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

7. How does Salvatore help help out Mary and the children?

8. How dis Mary keep Dolores warm when she was a baby?

9. What does Mary say Frankie wants to do to her instead of what he is doing to the kitchen door?

10. How does the family's situation change the day Dolores is born?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose two of the following people and outline their influence on Dolores's life:

1. Mary.

2. Frankie.

3. Fran.

Essay Topic 2

Away from the main character, examine the way the author uses the other characters in the book. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

Essay Topic 3

Replace the play's setting with one of the following settings:

1. London.

2. New York

3. Paris.

What new meaning would the new setting give the book? How important is setting for developing meaning in a story?

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