The Winter of Our Discontent Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 125 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Winter of Our Discontent Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 125 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What holiday is being celebrated at the beginning of the book?
(a) Passover.
(b) Good Friday.
(c) Lent.
(d) Hanukkah.

2. What do people in Ethan's hometown feel at the beginning of Part Two?
(a) Mounting anxiety.
(b) New energy.
(c) Calm and peace.
(d) An oncoming depression.

3. What is stored in Ethan's attic?
(a) Lots of books.
(b) Old documents.
(c) His mother's clothes.
(d) His father's war materials.

4. What ended Ethan's appetite for killing?
(a) Seeing a violent crime.
(b) Accidentally shooting his dog.
(c) The death of his father.
(d) The war.

5. Who does Ethan see sleepwalking?
(a) Danny.
(b) Ellen.
(c) Mary.
(d) Allen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Allen say he wants to be when he grows up at the beginning of Part Two?

2. What does Joey do when he enters the back door of the bank?

3. Who does Ethan call after he closes he store at the beginning of Part Two?

4. What does Ethan say he has never actively sought?

5. What will be built where an old hotel is being bulldozed?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Margie act when she comes to Ethan's house for dinner, and how does Ethan feel about this?

2. What did Ethan like to shoot as a child, and what ended his love for hunting?

3. What happens when Ethan asks Margie to read his fortune?

4. What does Ethan say to Mary when he returns home from the harbor?

5. What job does Ethan offer to Allen, and how does he respond to this offer?

6. What is Ethan's strategy to get rid of a bad memory, and where did he learn this?

7. What are the possible prizes for winning the contest that Ethan's children want to join?

8. What does Mary say when Ethan says he is hesitant to invest with Baker?

9. What does the salesman say to Ethan when they speak for the first time?

10. What happens when Biggers comes back into the store?

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