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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. What did the man do when he spoke to the narrator's mother?

3. What were the narrator and her mother wearing?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What did the man say he had forgotten?

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

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

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

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

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

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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