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

2. What did the old man want?

3. How old is the narrator?

4. What did the narrator say that her mother looked like she might find when she cut the top off of boiled eggs.

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did the man say he had forgotten?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The mother and daughter observe the old man drinking whiskey in a pub. How important does drinking whiskey seem to be to the old man? Does he seem to be addicted to alcohol?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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