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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 first causes the boys to notice the submerged car?
2. How did Mr. D. M. Willens die?
3. What does Enid recall a patient doing with a willow platter she asked Enid to retrieve for her?
4. What technique is used in the phrase "the mirror beside the kitchen door with the shelf underneath always loaded with safety pins, bobby pins, pennies, buttons, bits of pencils" (17)?
5. How do the boys know whose car they are looking at in the water?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do the boys plan to do when they return to town with their news, and how does that plan change as soon as they actually return to town?
2. In a time and place where people with disabilities are often mocked, why does no one mock Mr. Box?
3. What happens when Cece's father is in a violent rage and one of his friends comes to the door?
4. When the boys get close to the river, what do they see submerged there, and how do they react?
5. Why does Cece not tell his parents what he and his friends found at the river?
6. What does Enid see as the difference between the appearance and the reality of Olive and Rupert?
7. What social situation at the police station discourages the boys from making their report?
8. What causes the argument between Bud and his sister Doris just before dinner?
9. Once Enid drops out of nursing school, how does she fill her time?
10. How does Enid feel about Mrs. Quinn, and what is Mrs. Quinn's reaction to this?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay in which you trace the development of a thematic motif from the introduction throughout the rest of the story. Use textual evidence to support your claims.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the significance of setting in "The Love of a Good Woman." Be sure to support your ideas with evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the truthfulness of Mrs. Quinn's story about the murder of Mr. Willens. Be sure to include in your claim a statement about the significance of her truthfulness or deceitfulness. Support your ideas with evidence from the text.
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