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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 say that he forgot?
2. What did the man say happened to old people like him?
3. How many cavities did the narrator have?
4. What did the narrator's mother want when they could not get a taxi?
5. What color shoes did the man have?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did the narrator's mother wish they had a car with a chauffeur?
2. How did the narrator describe her mother's haughty stare?
3. Why did the narrator believe that the man was a gentleman?
4. How does the narrator describe herself and her mother?
5. What did the man say he had forgotten?
6. What did the man ask the narrator's mother to give him?
7. Where did the narrator and her mother go after their appointment at the dentist?
8. How does the narrator describe a man who comes up to them?
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
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
The mother is not sure whether to help the old man or not. Why does the mother hesitate to help the old man? Why is she suspicious? What alleviates her suspicions and causes her to make the decision to give the man a pound?
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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