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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 does Lavinia's mother tell Robert Lavinia should become?

2. Who is Philip's ex-wife in "Dreamer in a Dead Language"?

3. What does Mr. Wong scold some of the American tourists for in "Somewhere Else"?

4. Who is the father of Cissy's child?

5. What did the mother ask of her daughter when she came home at 3 a.m. in "Mother"?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Anxiety," why does the father get upset with his daughter says "oink, oink"?

2. Who is Philip In "Dreamer in A Dead Language"? Why does he want to meet Faith's father?

3. What happened to the young girls in "In the Garden"? What does someone tell the stranger they think happened?

4. What happened to Selena's daughter Abby? What did Tonto say about Abby at the end?

5. What does Faith do at the end of the story after she and her father argue? Describe the mood.

6. Who tells the American tourists they "do not love the Chinese people" (288) in "Somewhere Else"?

7. Describe the story the narrator writes for her father when he asks for a simple story in "A Conversation with My Father."

8. Describe the progression of the man's relationship with his female neighbor in "The Burdened Man."

9. What does Jack suspect is the real reason Faith wants a baby in "Listening"?

10. What happens to Juniper in "Little Girl"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay exploring the relationships between men and women in Paley's collection.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay about the author of The Collected Stories of Grace Paley. Who is she? What else has she written? How is The Collected Stories of Grace Paley representative of her work and life?

Essay Topic 3

Choose two characters and discuss their similarities and differences.

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