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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 did Mal love?

2. What did Mrs. Stratton say the confusion was regarding?

3. How do the servants distinguish between the two Mrs. Foxworths?

4. From whom did Malcolm receive a letter?

5. What did Mal realize?

Short Essay Questions

1. What had Malcolm been doing to Alicia?

2. What had provided the reason for Olivia to search out Christopher?

3. How was little Corinne the light of Foxworth Hall?

4. Why did Olivia initially deny Alicia the Victrola or radio?

5. How did Alicia end up passing the time?

6. After her initial grief over the loss of Mal and Joel, how did Corinne react to the family's continued pallor?

7. How did Olivia regain her dignity after Malcolm's betrayal?

8. What had Malcolm already discussed with Mal and Joel?

9. How was Christopher very diplomatic and fair?

10. What had Mal done against his father's wishes, and why did this please Olivia?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the deaths of Mal and Joel. What possible reasons might the author have had for killing them both off? How did their deaths affect the final outcome of the story, if at all?

Essay Topic 2

Examine Malcolm's frugal nature. When was his frugality forgotten and for what purpose? Explain how his stingy nature everywhere else in his life led Malcolm to financial success, and how beautiful women could be considered as his financial downfall or his vice.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Garland's relationship with Alicia. Would such a relationship be approved of in today's socially elite? Why or why not? What stigmatization is made against older men and women who marry someone far younger?

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