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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 color shoes did the man have?

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

3. What time did the narrator and her mother leave the cafe?

4. What were the narrator and her mother wearing?

5. Where did the narrator want to go when it started raining?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What did the man say he had forgotten?

6. Where did the narrator and her mother go after their appointment at the dentist?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The old man stole umbrellas and got money to buy alcohol. Is deceit involved in the old man’s actions? Is his scheme to get money a scam?

Essay Topic 2

Colors are sometimes associated with mood. If you could assign a color to represent the mood in The Umbrella Man, what color would it be? Why?

Essay Topic 3

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a story. What is the point of view in the story? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

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