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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. When out on the boat, what does Judy invite Dexter to do the next day?

2. What is Dexter afraid he is doing to Judy during their after dinner conversation?

3. The simile made about the winters is that they "shut down like the white. . ."

4. When the snow melts, where does the water run?

5. What can Dexter hear when he relaxes on the raft?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Judy's response when Dexter asks her to marry him in Part 4?

2. Why did Judy leave the man she was with earlier in the day before she and Dexter had dinner in Part 3?

3. Describe the events that lead up to Mr. T. A. Hedrick getting struck with a golf ball.

4. What did Dexter actually do at the end of Part 5?

5. How does Devlin describe Judy?

6. What did Dexter intend to do at the end of Part 5?

7. What is the lake like when Dexter swims out to the raft in Part 2?

8. In Part 4 it says, "[Dexter] had been hardened against jealousy long before." What caused him to be "hardened against jealousy?"

9. What does Dexter tell Judy about his career after dinner in Part 3?

10. How does Devlin know Judy (what is their relationship)?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When Dexter arrives at Judy's house for dinner, several things do not go as he imagined they would.

1. Compare and contrast Judy's attire with Dexter's.

2. Compare and contrast Dexter's idea of how dinner will go with how it actually goes.

3. Why does Dexter assume he is the cause when the dinner conversation is not going well?

Essay Topic 2

Dexter has a vivid imagination.

1. What type of people does Dexter imagine Judy's lovers to be?

2. How does Dexter think he is superior to these men?

3. In what way does Dexter know he is inferior to them?

Essay Topic 3

At several points in this story, the plot seems to be pushed by coincidences.

1. Dexter and Judy often end up at the same dances, why did they meet in the obscure way they did on the open lake at night--instead of a more reasonable location like a dance?

2. Dexter learns of Judy's fading beauty from a man from Detroit. What is taken from the story if Dexter were to learn his information from someone in Black Bear?

3. Had these two events taken place differently, could the story have reached the same conclusion? Why or why not?

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