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

2. What did the narrator's mother have at a cafe?

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

4. How did the narrator describe a man that came up to her and her mother?

5. What were the narrator and her mother wearing?

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

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

5. What did the man say he had forgotten?

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

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

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

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

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 mother is wary of the old man when he approaches because he is a stranger. How does the mother attempt to determine if the old man is trustworthy? Is she able to determine whether the man is trustworthy based on observation and interaction?

Essay Topic 2

The setting or settings in a story are where the action takes place. Do the settings in the story serve as a backdrop to characters or does it almost take on the role of a character? How does the setting evoke feelings or set the tone in the story?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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