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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 respond when the daughter asked what the man might be up to?

3. What did the mother tell her daughter would happen if she was evaluating a person and did not rush?

4. What type of look did the mother give her daughter when the man said he would not take extra money?

5. How many times a day could the old man walk to town?

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 did the daughter observe about her mother as she thought about the old man's offer?

3. What did the mother tell the man before she gave him any money?

4. What happened when the mother gave the old man a pound note?

5. Why did the old man not walk home?

6. What did the old man say when the mother offered to give him the taxi fare?

7. What did the old man say about the umbrella as the mother thought about giving him a pound for it?

8. What type of look did the girl give her mother as her mother reached for the clasp of her purse?

9. How did the old man tell the mother and daughter that he got to town?

10. What did the mother say when the daughter asked why she was so horrid to the old man in the beginning?

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 old man stole umbrellas and got money to buy alcohol. Is deceit involved in the old man’s actions? Is his scheme to get money a scam?

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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