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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 is the brass bell really made of?

2. Who does Dolores meet in Tino's?

3. What does Rose put inside the bag of peas?

4. Whose arms does Rose remember seeing her mother in on the day of the fire?

5. Where does Rose search for Frankie's jewelery?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do people think has happened to Salvatore?

2. How does Luca cause Dolores to faint?

3. What is Mary's state when she is discovered at the Salvation Army hospital?

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

5. How has the city changed since Dolores was there thirty years ago?

6. How does Mary react when she sees Frankie with Joe and Paolo?

7. Why is Dolores so transfixed by the photograph?

8. What does Salvatore discover in part one chapter eleven?

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

10. How does Salvatore fall into the dry dock?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What problems do Dolores's generation face? How are the problems for Dolores's generation different to the problems her father's generation faced? Identify and discuss a significant problem facing your generation.

Essay Topic 2

Examine the author's writing style. How would you describe the author's prose style? What kind of vocabulary does he use? What meaning does the author's style give to the story?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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