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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. How does Eilis feel the night after she receives her first letters from home?

2. In Part I, what classes has Eilis nearly finished?

3. The night after Eilis receives her first letters from home, what does she call her bedroom at Mrs. Kehoe's?

4. What is Eilis's law instructor's name?

5. Why has Father Flood not been coming around to check on Eilis in the first few weeks she has been in America?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Miss Kelly say about her helper Mary?

2. How does Eilis get a shop coat and what type does she buy?

3. What is Eilis's room like on the ship that takes her to America?

4. What does Eilis know about Miss Kelly's store before she goes to work there?

5. What does Eilis's mother say about Miss Kelly?

6. What job does Miss Kelly offer Eilis?

7. What happened to Mrs. Kehoe's husband?

8. Who is Father Flood?

9. What is Miss McAdam, one of Mrs. Kehoe's boarders like?

10. How does Miss Fortini act when when she notices that Eilis is sad?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Catholic Church plays an important part in the lives of characters in the novel. How does Father Flood represent the Catholic Church in the novel? How does the role he plays show the influence that the Catholic Church has on the lives of its parishioners? How is that revealed in the everyday lives of the characters?

Essay Topic 2

Eilis spends her first Christmas at the parish hall. Why does Eilis spend her first Christmas in Brooklyn at the parish hall? Does she have other opportunities to spend her second Christmas than going to the parish hall? What does she choose to do and why does she make that decision?

Essay Topic 3

Eilis is concerned about her appearance when she lives in Brooklyn. Why does her appearance bother her? What does she think she needs assistance with to look like other girls? How does appearance change? How does that change affect her in Brooklyn and then when she returns to Ireland?

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