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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 is on each side of the Skylight Room?

2. Where does the person who has the double front room with private bath spend winters?

3. What word is used to describe Mrs. Parker as she take you to see rooms?

4. Who does Miss Leeson say she is not when Mrs. Parker shows her the second-floor-back room?

5. How much does Clara say it costs to rent the Skylight Room?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mrs. Parker take prospective roomers to Mr. Skidder's room?

2. How does Mrs. Parker respond if you say you are not able to rent the double parlors?

3. What room does Clara show prospective roomers?

4. Who is Mr. Skidder and where is his room at Mrs. Parker's?

5. Where did Mr. Tossenberry go when he left Mrs. Parker's?

6. Who is Clara and how does she treat prospective roomers?

7. How is the Skylight Room furnished?

8. Why does Mr. Skidder pay something on his rent after Mrs. Parker brings prospective roomers to view his room?

9. How is Miss Leeson described?

10. How does the narrator describe what happens when Clara is called to show Miss Leeson the Skylight Room?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Miss Leeson lived in poverty. Does the story seem to indicate whether her poverty was her fault of situational?

Essay Topic 2

Miss Leeson is viewed differently by the male and female boarders. How and why is Miss Leesn viewed differently by the male and female boarders?

Essay Topic 3

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What points of view are used in “The Skylight Room”? How do these points of view influence what readers know about events and characters? How does changing the point of view help readers connect with and understand the characters?

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