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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 did Sandy the doorman do every time he delivered a present for Angela's shower?

2. Why did Angela and Mrs. Pulaski dress alike to go to the party?

3. Why did Mrs. Wexler fix Turtle's hair and tell her she was so pretty in pink?

4. What name did Turtle tell Flora was her real name?

5. Why would there be no autopsy on Westing's body?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Turtle mean by the expression, "Paper losses. . .doesn't mean a thing"?

2. Why was Mrs. Hoo missing from the group of heirs, and what did this indicate about her daily life?

3. What did the newspaperman find out about George Theodorakis?

4. What sort of letter did the tenants of Sunset Towers receive, and what did it instruct them to do?

5. Why was Chris watching legs from his wheelchair?

6. What two unusual things happened at the supposed empty Westing Mansion?

7. Describe the appearance of the six apartments in the Sunset Towers building.

8. When did the second bomb go off?

9. Why did Angela search under the hoods of the cars in the parking lot?

10. Why did Sydelle Pulaski walk with a gaily painted crutch, and for what reason did she claim to need it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Crow and Grace Wexler. What do they have in common, what is different about them? How do their personalities compare?

Essay Topic 2

Parallelism is one of the literary devices used in The Westing Game. One example of parallelism is that of Angela/Theo and Violet Westing and George Theodorakis. Find at least one other example of parallelism in the novel and discuss it. What purpose would the author maybe have for including those examples of parallelism?

Essay Topic 3

The pairings of the heirs is very unusual. In what ways are the pairings not what might be expected? How did they work out better than anticipated? Chris said that everyone had the perfect partner. Choose 3 partnerships and explain how they were perfect in an expository essay. If you don't think they were perfect, discuss the reasons for your opinion.

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