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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. According to the narrator, what did Dexter desire?

2. What name does the nurse give for the girl?

3. 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. . . "

4. Who does Dexter think carelessness is for?

5. How far from Black Bear is the place Dexter was born located?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Devlin say Judy will not get a divorce?

2. What do the old men in town mean when they say, "Now there's a boy?"

3. How does seeing Judy at the dance in Part 4 make Dexter feel?

4. What does Dexter do when Devlin refers to Judy as "a pretty girl" and then by saying she's "all right?"

5. What happened to Dexter's laundry business in Part 5?

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

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

8. How does the first "official" meeting between Dexter and Judy go?

9. What is meant when Dexter is described as "hard minded" in Part 5?

10. What does Dexter mean at the end of Part 6 when he says, "That thing will come back no more?"

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Dexter and Judy start their relationship with Judy telling Dexter she thinks she loves him. A week later she is running off with other men and stringing Dexter along.

1. How does Judy treat her men?

2. Why does Dexter stay with Judy? Why do the other men stay with her?

3. Compare Judy's treatment of men with how she is treated by her husband at the end of the story.

Essay Topic 2

Judy changes from the beautiful, unfaithful woman she is early in the story to a rougher looking faithful mother by the end of the story.

1. Compare and contrast Judy from Part 1 to Part 6.

2. How does Judy think about love?

3. Does Judy get what she deserves? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Most of the character's in Winter Dreams think only of themselves.

1. Why does Dexter not regret sleeping with Judy when he is engaged to Irene?

2. Why does Dexter not care what the town thinks of his behavior toward Irene?

3. Why does Judy keep coming back to Dexter, tells him she loves him, and then leaves him again?

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