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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 Sophie describe Claire's kitchen?

2. What is the first thing Sophie and Otto work together to do in the book?

3. Why is the man in line unable to get his prescription?

4. What does Sophie's father say people should do when speaking?

5. What does Sophie say Charlie has a hard time doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Tom? Why does he say the Bentwoods are lucky?

2. What did a hospital attendant and a nurse criticize Sophie for doing?

3. What caused the split in the business partnership between Charlie and Otto?

4. What does Sophie do after calling some hospitals? Why?

5. How does Sophie feel when she leaves Claire's house?

6. What does Otto feel determined to do after the hospital visit and why?

7. Why does Sophie realize Charlie spoke to her instead of to Otto?

8. What is the relationship like between Claire and Leon?

9. What does Otto suggest to Sophie when they return home from Flynders?

10. What did Sophie dream about after the cat is captured?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What happened between Sophie and the cat? How does this interaction shape the course of this plot?

Essay Topic 2

This book takes place in a few different settings. Describe some of these settings their effect on the plot. Why might Paula Fox have chosen these particular places for this plot to take place?

Essay Topic 3

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears? How do the characters touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

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