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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. Where do the boy and girl sit after they have their drinks?
2. What does the girl tell the boy she wants in the drink he pours her?
3. What does the boy say after he and the girl dance to a few records in the driveway?
4. What does the man offer the boy and girl?
5. What does the man suggest the boy and girl do after he puts on a second record?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the girl just pick a record at random when the man tells her to pick something?
2. What does the man offer the boy and the girl to drink? What does he do after that?
3. What does the girl tell the other people about the night at the man's house?
4. Why does the girl tell the story of the night at the man's house to everyone? Does she figure anything out?
5. What does the boy tell the man and the girl the whiskey does to him?
6. What does the man say about the neighbors watching him dance with the girl at the end of the story?
7. What does the man tell the boy and girl about the record player after he turns off the TV?
8. 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?
9. Describe the man and the girl dancing together at the end of the story.
10. What does the man think as he watches the faces of the boy and girl in the lamplight?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing Carver's commentary on relationships in "Why Don't You Dance?." Use textual evidence to explain your analysis.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay analyzing Carver's decision to tell the story using third person point-of-view shifting from each character's perspective. How does this impact the reader's understanding of the story's events? Is this effective? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay examining the record player as a symbol in "Why Don't You Dance?." In what scenes does the record player appear? What is the context? How does the record player develop the narrative?
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