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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 narrator's mother have at a cafe?

3. Where did the narrator and her mother go yesterday?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did the man say he had forgotten?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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?

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