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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 does the boy ask the girl after the man drop his cigarette between the couch cushions?
2. What is the man doing when his cigarette drops between the couch cushions?
3. What does the girl stop doing "after a time" (6) according to the final lines of the story?
4. What does the boy say after he and the girl dance to a few records in the driveway?
5. What does the man say to the girl as they dance as the end of the story?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the man say about the neighbors watching him dance with the girl at the end of the story?
2. What does the girl tell the other people about the night at the man's house?
3. Describe the man and the girl dancing together at the end of the story.
4. Why does the girl tell the story of the night at the man's house to everyone? Does she figure anything out?
5. Why does the girl just pick a record at random when the man tells her to pick something?
6. What does the man drop on the sofa? Who helps him?
7. What does the man think as he watches the faces of the boy and girl in the lamplight?
8. What does the man tell the boy and girl about the record player after he turns off the TV?
9. What does the man suggest the boy and girl do after he puts on a second record? What does the boy think of this suggestion?
10. What does the boy tell the man and the girl the whiskey does to him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing narrative voice in Carver of "Why Don't You Dance?." Include thoughts on how the narrative voice of the story is effective in conveying the story’s themes.
Essay Topic 2
Write a brief essay analyzing Carver’s choice to write "Why Don't You Dance?" in past tense. Do you agree with this choice? How would the story be different if written in a different tense?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Carver’s focus on the theme of intimacy as presented in the story.
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