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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 is the name of the place where Eilis sees her first baseball game?
2. What does Eilis want to do the afternoon after Father Flood has a memorial mass for Rose?
3. What color stockings are going to be sold at Bartocci's store in Part III?
4. If Eilis passes her exams, how long will it probably be before she can have a job in the office at Bartocci's?
5. What color coats are the first colored women wearing when they purchase stockings in Part IiI at Bartocci's?
Short Essay Questions
1. What announcement does Father Flood make in Part III, Section 1?
2. How does Tony treat Eilis at the first baseball game they attend together?
3. When Eilis moves to the room in the basement, why does she wish that she had stayed in her old bedroom?
4. Who is the new boarder who takes Eilis's old room in Part III, Section 1?
5. What advice to Diana and Patty give Eilis before she goes to Coney Island with Tony?
6. What do Eilis and the others do during the break after two hours of the game?
7. What is Eilis's new room like in Part III, Section 1?
8. Why does Mrs. Kehoe want to speak with Eilis at the beginning of Part III, Section 1?
9. What do Tony, Maurice, and Laurence buy together, and what do they plan to do?
10. In Part III, Section 1, why does Eilis edit what she writes home in her letters?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Eilis is suddenly struck by homesickness several weeks after being in America. What brings on her homesickness? How does it affect her? How is she able to deal with homesickness and acclimate to being in America?
Essay Topic 2
There are internal and external conflicts in the novel. Are there more internal or external conflicts? How do these conflicts advance the plot and influence characters?
Essay Topic 3
Eilis leaves her close-knit community in Ireland to immigrate to America. How does growing up in the community of Enniscorthy make Eilis the person she has become? How is a new community created around her in America? How does that community help grow and mature?
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