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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 does Paula feel about her job?

2. When does Paula say she can believe anything?

3. Who has Paula's son robbed twice?

4. Where does Paula get the idea to read with Jack?

5. What did Paula say High School made her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Paula say she likes most about herself even after her sad past?

2. How did Paula feel when she first started dating Charlo, and why?

3. Why does Carmel say she can never think kindly about her father?

4. What did Paula do when she wet her pants in the Spencers' bathroom?

5. How do Paula and her sisters respond to the news of Charlo's death?

6. What attracted Paula to Charlo in the first place?

7. How did Charlo die?

8. Why did Paula become so vulgar in high school?

9. Why has Paula not seen Charlo in a while when she learns of his death?

10. What did Paula mistake for a bathroom at Charlo's house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What role does symbolism play in the story and where does it appear? How is the plot altered by the presence of these symbols?

Essay Topic 2

What were some of Paula's coping mechanisms during hard times in her life, and how did these shape her situations for the good and the bad?

Essay Topic 3

What were Paula's thoughts on education, and how did this change her actions. How did this ideal of his change the course of the plot?

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