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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 material is the narrator's dress made of?
2. What subject does the narrator excel in?
3. What type of courses does is the younger brother enrolled in?
4. How does the narrator wear dresses?
5. Who dies prior to the novel's narration?
Short Essay Questions
1. On occasion, when the mother would emerge from her depression, she would instruct the house to be cleaned. How would the family respond and why do you think they would feel this way?
2. What metaphor is used in sync with the narrator's perfect moment in time, when she is on the ferry where she will meet the lover?
3. How does the lover feel about the narrator at the end of the relationship?
4. Why is the ferry crossing right before the narrator meets the lover considered her perfect moment in time?
5. The narrator describes both the lover's body and her own in unique ways at the very beginning of their relationship. Explain how.
6. What compels the Chinese financier to approach the narrator?
7. Describe the narrator's outfit in Segment 2. In what way does it transform her?
8. How does the narrator feel about the sex and the relationship at the beginning of the relationship?
9. What is the narrator's relationship with her family later in life?
10. What is the relationship between the lover and the narrator? How does the narrator feel about it?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Look at the character of the older brother. Regardless of his bullying and wastrel ways, he is the favorite of the mother. What aspects of family life lead him to act the way that he does? How could the mother have affected his life if she had chosen to treat him differently? Is his attitude and personality connected to his later life? What happens to the older brother in the novel?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the positive and negative factors in the relationship between the narrator and the lover. How are the lives of the narrator and the lover impacted by their relationship? What are the societal implications of their relationship in the time it took place? Also, discuss the implications of a similar relationship in present day.
Essay Topic 3
The relationship between the mother and the daughter, the narrator, in the novel is very interesting, though highly dysfunctional. Describe this relationship. How does the nature of the relationship affect the personality or character traits of the narrator? How does the relationship between mother and daughter affect the narrator's early and later life? Why is it difficult for the narrator to remember her mother later in life?
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