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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. When did the incident that the narrator describes happen?

2. What did the narrator say that her mother was suspicious of?

3. What did the old man want?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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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