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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 does Dolores find inside the purse Eva gives her?

2. What has Frankie stolen from Salvatore?

3. What does Dolores think her father felt when he left his family behind?

4. What city does Dolores travel to in part two, Waiting two?

5. What does Rose dry with the death towel?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Dolores so transfixed by the photograph?

2. How does Salvatore fall into the dry dock?

3. What do Luca and Rose remember about the past in part two chapter fourteen?

4. What kind of list does Dolores write?

5. Describe Celesta's adult life?

6. What problems occur at the wedding reception?

7. What does Martineau tell Dolores about the night of the fire?

8. What does Rose tells Dolores about her other sisters?

9. How does the novel end?

10. In what way does Rose defy her husband?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Dolores's character to the person she was at the beginning of the book to the person she was at the end:

1. What did Dolores hope to achieve at the beginning of the novel?

2. What events changes Dolores's ideas about life?

3. How has Dolores's character changed by the end of the novel?

Essay Topic 2

The author wrote the Hiding Place primarily in the first person. Why do you think the author chose to write the story in the first person? How do you think the meaning of the story would change if the author wrote it in the third person?

Essay Topic 3

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

1. Mary.

2. Frankie.

3. Fran.

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