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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. Who does Susan bring with her in chapter 15 when she comes to interview to be Margaret and Wanda's new roommate?

2. Where does Stephen draw a picture of Margaret in chapter 5?

3. What is Wanda's profession?

4. What picture does Wanda put into her backpack in chapter 3?

5. What does Wanda think of in chapter 16 as the paramedics load her into the ambulance?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was life like for Wanda when she lived with the Schultz family?

2. Why does Margaret go to the Hotel Orleans in chapter 10? Who does she meet there?

3. What is significant about the day Margaret's mother died? What happens to Margaret in the aftermath of her mother's death?

4. Who does Margaret take to the opening night of Wanda's play? What does Margaret give to Wanda after the play is over?

5. What causes the decline of Stephen and Margaret's marriage?

6. What role does Stephen play in Margaret's life now that the two are divorced?

7. What happened to Wanda's parents that caused her to live with her aunt and uncle?

8. What does Margaret begin seeing in chapter 8? What is this a symptom of?

9. Why does Wanda interview the clerk at a second hand record store? Who does she pretend to be?

10. For what reason does Margaret decide to invite another person to live in her house? What is this new roommate's profession?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Stephen? How does Margaret feel about him? Why did their relationship end? What was the cause? What role does Stephen play in Margaret's life now? What is Margaret's reaction when the doctor wants to call Stephen upon learning of Margaret's brain tumor? Why does Stephen's new wife call Margaret later in the novel? What does she want? What does she threaten to tell Stephen? How does Margaret react to the threat? What does Stephen say to Margaret after this threat is made good?

Essay Topic 2

What happened to Margaret's mother? When did she die? Why does Margaret begin to see her mother? What role did her mother play in Margaret's life when she was a child? Now, as Margaret is an adult? What does it say about Margaret's health that she is seeing dead people? What does it say about her state of mind? Why does Margaret see her mother? Why does she not see her father or others who have died in her life?

Essay Topic 3

Who is Margaret Hughes? What illness does she have? What does Margaret decide to do about this illness? Why does Margaret decide to invite a stranger to move in with her? Why does Margaret worry about what her figurines and other valuables might think of her new roommate? How does Margaret get along with her new roommate? Who disapproves of Margaret's new roommate? Why? Why does Margaret later decide to invite other people to move in with herself and her new roommate?

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