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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 often did the old man walk to town?
2. How did the girl describe how the man moved as they tried to keep up with him?
3. Where did the mother and daughter go as they followed the man?
4. What was the girl telling her mother with a look as her mother reached for the clasp of her purse?
5. For how many years did the old man say that he would not take any more than a pound for the umbrella?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did the daughter observe about her mother as she thought about the old man's offer?
2. What happened when the mother gave the old man a pound note?
3. Why did the mother decide the man was up to something when she and her daughter watched him scurry away?
4. What did the old man say when the mother offered to give him the taxi fare?
5. What type of look did the girl give her mother as her mother reached for the clasp of her purse?
6. What did the mother say when the daughter asked why she was so horrid to the old man in the beginning?
7. What did the old man say about the umbrella as the mother thought about giving him a pound for it?
8. How did the old man tell the mother and daughter that he got to town?
9. What did the mother tell the man before she gave him any money?
10. Why did the old man not walk home?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
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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