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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. Why does the girl tell everyone the story of the night with the man in the driveway?
2. What does the girl stop doing "after a time" (6) according to the final lines of the story?
3. What word does the girl use to describe the records the man had given her when she tells people the story of that night?
4. What does the man tell the boy and girl he is going to do after he turns off the TV?
5. What does the girl tell the boy she wants in the drink he pours her?
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 drop on the sofa? Who helps him?
3. What does the girl tell the other people about the night at the man's house?
4. What does the man offer the boy and the girl to drink? What does he do after that?
5. Describe the man and the girl dancing together at the end of the story.
6. What does the boy tell the man and the girl the whiskey does to him?
7. Why does the girl tell the story of the night at the man's house to everyone? Does she figure anything out?
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. What does the man tell the boy and girl about the record player after he turns off the TV?
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 describing the imagery used in "Why Don't You Dance?." Indicate examples of imagery in the text and identify possible meanings.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay exploring conflict in "Why Don't You Dance?". What conflicts exist? How are these conflicts managed?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss elements of the narrative structure: Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the themes?
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