View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did Charlie find the entry about smothering that he has Emma read in Chapter 59?

2. In Chapter 59, how long after Charlie confronted Janice about the smothering incident did she disappear?

3. In Chapter 61, what time do Emma and Charlie park on the beach at Alnmouth?

4. Where does Jill live?

5. In Chapter 54, where does Charlie have a summer job?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Emma and Charlie go to Alnmouth and what do they find?

2. Why does Emily worry about having her baby?

3. Why did Jill take Emma and lie to Leo and Emma?

4. How did Emily's father die?

5. Why did Leo drive to Alnmouth?

6. In Chapter 54, who does Jill arrange for Emma to see and why does he come?

7. Why is Janice frightened in Chapter 43?

8. What does Emma say about her life at the end of the Epilogue?

9. How does post-partum depression affect Emily?

10. What does Janice tell Emily the first time they speak?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The climax in a novel is the highest point of tension and a turning point. What is the climax of The Love of My Life and why is that incident the climax?

Essay Topic 2

Leo becomes suspicious of Emma. How and why does Leo become suspicious of Emma? How do his suspicions affect their relationship?

Essay Topic 3

Accumulation is a literary device that allows an author to gather scattered ideas in a literary work and gradually build on information readers need to know. From whose perspective are various sections and chapters told? How does each section and chapter add information? How does the use of multiple viewpoints allow Walsh to use accumulation to advance the plot and provide important details to readers?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 919 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample