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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 did the old man want?

2. How old did the narrator believe that the man might be who came up to her and her mother?

3. What did the narrator's mother want when they could not get a taxi?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

7. What did the man say he had forgotten?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

The main characters are a mother and a daughter. What type of relationship do the mother and daughter have? What does their use of body language reveal about their relationship?

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