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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. Why did the narrator's mother want to get a taxi?

2. How did the narrator describe a man that came up to her and her mother?

3. How did the narrator describe the man's face?

4. How does the narrator describe what happened to her and her mother?

5. Where did the narrator and her mother go yesterday?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe herself and her mother?

2. How did the narrator's mother look at the man and why?

3. Where did the narrator and mother go yesterday afternoon and what happened there?

4. What was the weather like around six o'clock yesterday and how did that affect what the narrator's mother wanted to do?

5. What did the man ask the narrator's mother to give him?

6. What did the man say he had forgotten?

7. Why did the narrator believe that the man was a gentleman?

8. How did the narrator describe her mother's haughty stare?

9. Why did the narrator's mother wish they had a car with a chauffeur?

10. How does the narrator describe a man who comes up to them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The mother is not sure whether to help the old man or not. Why does the mother hesitate to help the old man? Why is she suspicious? What alleviates her suspicions and causes her to make the decision to give the man a pound?

Essay Topic 2

The mother uses the incident with the old man to teach her daughter a lesson. What lesson does the mother attempt to teach her daughter? How does the mother seem to take her duties as a mother seriously? What do her actions reveal about motherhood and her desire to care for her daughter?

Essay Topic 3

An old man approaches a woman and her daughter. Why does the man approach the woman and her daughter? Why is the woman suspicious of the man and his motives?

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