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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. How does Billy feel about the price of the bed and breakfast?
2. What causes Billy to dismiss his initial concerns about the landlady?
3. According to the landlady, how much does the bed and breakfast cost per day?
4. What does Billy believe about when Mr. Mulholland left the bed and breakfast?
5. According to the landlady, what school had Mr. Mulholland attended when he came to the bed and breakfast?
Short Essay Questions
1. When the landlady comes into the sitting room, what is odd about the manner in which she is carrying the object? What might the narrator be trying to tell the reader?
2. According to Billy, what is odd about the dates of the previous entries in the guestbook?
3. According to Billy, how does the landlady smell? Of what does the smell remind him?
4. What objects does the landlady carry into the sitting room while Billy is waiting there?
5. What request does the landlady make of Billy before he goes to bed?
6. According to the landlady, why does she always keep a room ready?
7. What information does Billy discover in the guestbook?
8. According to the landlady immediately after she welcomes Billy inside, how many people are staying at the bed and breakfast?
9. What does Billy think of the landlady as he enters the bed and breakfast? Of what does she remind him?
10. When she comes into the sitting room, how does the landlady describe her previous guests?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Mortality (as well as its opposite, immortality) is a key theme in the story. How is this theme illustrated by the story’s characters and plot? What point do you think the author is trying to make regarding this theme?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the importance of briskness and how it helps to explain Billy’s character. How does the idea of briskness contribute to his fate in the story?
Essay Topic 3
Although Mulholland and Temple are not literally present in the story, they both play an important role. Discuss the role Mulholland and Temple play regarding the story’s plot and themes.
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