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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 Dexter and Judy go after their dinner?

2. What does Judy wear when she comes downstairs for her dinner with Dexter?

3. What does the person who approaches in the raft Dexter want to do?

4. What does the girl who hit the golf ball say when her partner came over the hill? "I'd have gone on the green except that. . . "

5. What is the name of the main character?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Dexter not harbor any hard feelings toward Judy even though he is unable to maintain a relationship with her?

2. What reasons did Judy give for ending her relationship with Dexter in Part 5?

3. Describe Irene Scheerer.

4. Why did Dexter welcome the war?

5. How does Dexter feel about spring, fall and winter?

6. Why does Dexter become engaged to Irene?

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

8. What does Dexter want to do when learning of Judy's situation?

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

10. What is Dexter's first life changing decision based upon his winter dreams?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

After returning from college, Dexter becomes a successful businessman and a popular figure in town.

1. Why is Dexter so popular in town?

2. Why is his Laundry chain so successful?

3. How does Dexter distance himself from his life as a caddy?

Essay Topic 3

A business associate presents Dexter with information that changes how he views the world.

1. What does Dexter lay on his couch and imagine after Devlin leaves?

2. Why does Dexter think all the beauty that once existed is now gone?

3. What is the "something" Dexter feels has been taken from him at the end of the story?

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