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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 Rose find in the kitchen closet?

2. What does Rose carry back to her mother's house?

3. What does Dolores take home with her?

4. What did Louis get into trouble for the night before?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Dolores so transfixed by the photograph?

3. How does the novel end?

4. Describe Celesta's adult life?

5. What do people think has happened to Salvatore?

6. In what way does Rose defy her husband?

7. How does Luca cause Dolores to faint?

8. What does part two, chapter three say about Rose's character?

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

10. How does Rose make Dolores and Luca laugh at their mother's funeral?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss elements of the narrative structure, such as exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all these elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the novel's themes?

Essay Topic 2

Why do both Mary and Frankie struggle to settle in Cardiff? How different was Malta to Wales in the sixties? How would compatriots view his behavior in Cardiff?

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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