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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 Meredith and Bunny go once leaving the after-party?

2. What do Meredith and Bunny laugh about at night in the hotel lounge?

3. What does Rose find in Stella's ankle sock?

4. What is Stella's job for the third production in the book?

5. What name does O'Hara call Stella while being intimate?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Geoffrey feel about Stella by Chapter 6?

2. What does Geoffrey say to Meredith at the after-party regarding how he is feeling about their relationship?

3. Why does Stella not wear the coat that Lily got her?

4. What does Stella learn about Meredith and Bunny's true backgrounds?

5. What has happened since Hilary received Meredith's telegram?

6. What does Richard think about the situation with Dawn?

7. What is Stella's new role for the third play put on in the book?

8. Why does Dawn give Bunny an envelope at the train station?

9. Who is not feeling festive with Christmas approaching and why?

10. Where does O'Hara stay while in Liverpool?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

It is foreshadowed many times in the book that Stella is O'Hara's daughter. The author foreshadows it in things that Stella says and does and also in things that O'Hara says and does. Tell all of the ways that it is foreshadowed that Stella is O'Hara's daughter.

Essay Topic 2

How does the author foreshadow Stella's phone call at the end of the book? Include how it is set up and ultimately how it ends.

Essay Topic 3

Describe what O'Hara's need to stay in his old room symbolizes. How does almost everything having to do with O'Hara involve the theme that history has a nasty habit of repeating itself.

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