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

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

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

5. What type of facial hair did the man have who approached the narrator and her mother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the man say he had forgotten?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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?

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