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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 type of material was the umbrella made of that the old man was offering?
2. How did the mother and daughter have to walk to keep up with the man on page 120?
3. How did the man swing his arms as he bustled along the pavement and moved around the other pedestrians?
4. What did the mother tell her daughter would happen if she was evaluating a person and did not rush?
5. Who did mother think the man might have been?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did the mother decide the man was up to something when she and her daughter watched him scurry away?
2. What happened when the mother gave the old man a pound note?
3. What did the mother tell the man before she gave him any money?
4. What type of look did the girl give her mother as her mother reached for the clasp of her purse?
5. What did the old man say when the mother offered to give him the taxi fare?
6. What did the old man say about the umbrella as the mother thought about giving him a pound for it?
7. How did the old man tell the mother and daughter that he got to town?
8. Why did the old man not walk home?
9. What did the mother say when the daughter asked why she was so horrid to the old man in the beginning?
10. What did the daughter observe about her mother as she thought about the old man's offer?
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
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 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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