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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. What does Stella say frightens her?

2. Which cast is the company playing a football game against?

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

4. In Chapter 6, what does Rose want to have happen to Dawn?

5. Where is the reporter from that will interview Stella?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is going on with Stella's health in Chapter 7?

2. How does Stella feel about going to the after-party?

3. What new production in Chapter 6 is the theater going to be putting on, and what role was Stella given?

4. How does O'Hara feel about Stella?

5. What is the third production in the book that the company will put on, and who will play the lead?

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

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

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

9. What impact on the production has O'Hara made playing his role in the play?

10. How does Stella feel after upsetting Lily and what does she do about it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How has the war physically and emotionally wounded the people of Liverpool? Draw specific examples from the book including the stories that Stella tells about the men from the boarding house.

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 how a bath is drawn at the point in time of the novel in Liverpool. The author goes to great lengths to describe how this process was extremely hard work compared to modern day baths where you just turn on the water. How does the author taking time out to address this help the reader become part of the time period and setting of the book?

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