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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 much did the man say that the umbrella cost him?
2. How did the mother stand as she watched the old man move away?
3. What did the mother offer the man since it was such an expensive umbrella?
4. Where did the mother and daughter go as they followed the man?
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 old man say when the mother offered to give him the taxi fare?
2. How did the old man tell the mother and daughter that he got to town?
3. Why did the old man not walk home?
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 mother say when the daughter asked why she was so horrid to the old man in the beginning?
6. What happened when the mother gave the old man a pound note?
7. What did the old man say about the umbrella as the mother thought about giving him a pound for it?
8. Why did the mother decide the man was up to something when she and her daughter watched him scurry away?
9. What did the mother tell the man before she gave him any money?
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
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
What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a story. What is the point of view in the story? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?
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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