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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 do they play at the asylum?

2. Who does Horahan say addressed him when he saw Captain Gault on the promenade?

3. What season is it in this chapter?

4. What did Mr. Sullivan stop doing more than a year ago?

5. What part of Lahardane has become derelict?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lucy not write to Ralph?

2. What do the nuns admire about Lucy? How does Lucy feel about her life?

3. How do Lucy and Everard react when they are reunited?

4. How do characters age in this chapter?

5. Describe Everard's journey back to Lahardane.

6. How are Everard and Lucy getting along?

7. How does Lucy feel now about waiting for her father's return? How does Everard feel?

8. How does Lucy and Ralph's correspondence end? What does Lucy regret?

9. Who does Lucy visit? What do other people think about her actions?

10. What does Lucy make during the wintertime? What is its significance?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that documents one person's (fictional or real) experience with a physical impairment, such as blindness, mobility issues, and so on. Be sure to address:

1) Difficulties that this person faces every day.

2) Social stigmas associated with the impairment.

3) Quality of life issues.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay documenting the challenges and difficulties faced by the elderly in modern society. Be sure to address:

1) Financial, physical, and emotional challenges faced by the elderly.

2) The possible effects of a growing aging population on modern societies.

3) How life expectancies and quality of life has changed throughout history.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay on parenting, documenting the roles and responsibilities of parents and children. Be sure to address how parenting has changed over time, and how the experience of today's parents is different from those of previous centuries.

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