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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 a man that came up to her and her mother?

2. What did the man say happened to old people like him?

3. Where did the narrator have cavities?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What did the man say he had forgotten?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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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