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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 change at home is implied to be the reason that Bud finally tells his mother what happened?
2. In high school, what was more important to Enid than having boyfriends?
3. To what does the narrator compare the opthalmoscope?
4. What technique is used in the phrase: "feel the painful recapture of their bodies by their startled blood" (5)?
5. What do the boys usually call one another when they are out at Jutland?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Mrs. Quinn dying of, and how does Olive hint that she might have gotten ill?
2. Explain how the boys cross the bridge and why they do it this way.
3. Describe the Quinns' relationship with their daughters.
4. Explain how the optometrist's instruments illustrate something about surface appearances.
5. What does Enid see as the difference between the appearance and the reality of Olive and Rupert?
6. Why have the boys come to Jutland?
7. What personal history does Enid have with Rupert, and how does it impact their present relationship?
8. How does Enid feel about Mrs. Quinn, and what is Mrs. Quinn's reaction to this?
9. Why is Jimmy Box's house so crowded?
10. What do the police ask Mrs. Willens about her husband, and how does she reply?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an analysis of Mrs. Quinn's character. Be sure to include a claim about the significance of the way that she is characterized. Support your ideas with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the symbolic significance of water in "For the Love of a Good Woman." Be sure to offer textual evidence in support of your ideas.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about what "The Love of a Good Woman" conveys about what it means to be "good." Support your ideas with textual evidence.
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