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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 Billy actually do after unpacking his suitcase?
2. What information does Billy add to the guestbook?
3. When the landlady looks "earnestly" into Billy's face, what type of word is "earnestly"?
4. When Billy goes down to the sitting room, what does he discover the dog doing?
5. What is telling about the way in which the landlady discusses Mr. Mulholland and Mr. Temple?
Short Essay Questions
1. What memory issues does the landlady exhibit while showing Billy around the bed and breakfast? How does he respond?
2. What reaction does Billy have to the information he finds in the guestbook?
3. 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?
4. According to the landlady, why do so few people stay at the bed and breakfast?
5. What does Billy think of the landlady as he enters the bed and breakfast? Of what does she remind him?
6. What refreshments does the landlady offer Billy in the sitting room?
7. What request does the landlady make of Billy before he goes to bed?
8. As Billy waits in the sitting room for the landlady, how does he consider his surroundings? How does he consider himself?
9. What does Billy surmise about when Mulholland left the bed and breakfast? What makes him think this?
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
What makes Billy so attractive to the landlady? Discuss three of Billy’s traits that contribute to his demise.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay explaining the significance of the title of the novel, “The Landlady.” How does the title reflect (or impact) the main characters? How does the title reflect the story’s themes? How does the title’s meaning change over the course of the story?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the character of Billy. How does he illustrate both childhood and adulthood?
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