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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the relationship between the younger brother and the narrator after high school?
2. Who does the narrator feel ruled by?
3. What does the lover have difficulty doing?
4. Who often weeps?
5. What group did the narrator join after the war?
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
The narrator tells a few stories in the novel that seemingly have nothing to do with the plot or her life story. However, these stories can be seen to parallel the narrator's own story. What are these stories or instances that the narrator relates to the reader? Summarize them and explain why or how they are used as metaphors for the narrator's life. Why does the narrator choose to use these comparisons?
Essay Topic 3
The narrator gives us a detailed account of her relationship with the lover. It is in fact, as she describes, the turning point in her life. Discuss the impact of the relationship on the life of the narrator. Include aspects of her early, middle and later life. How might the narrator's life have been different had she never met the lover?
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