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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 did the narrator describe the man's face?

2. Where did the narrator have cavities?

3. Where did the narrator and her mother stand trying to get a taxi?

4. What color hair did the man have who approached the narrator and her mother?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did the man say he had forgotten?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Colors are sometimes associated with mood. If you could assign a color to represent the mood in The Umbrella Man, what color would it be? Why?

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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