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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 Joe teach Frankie?

2. What does Mrs. Jackson say Mary was doing while her baby was burning in the fire?

3. What does Frankie take with him before he goes to see the bookie?

4. What is the name of the supermarket where Celesta finds a job?

5. Which part of the rabbit does Frankie cut off?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the doctors say about Dolores's injuries?

2. How does Celesta come to the decision to marry Pippo?

3. Why does Dolores think people can't see her scars?

4. How did Frankie meet Joe?

5. What does Mary say Frankie wants to do to her instead of what he is doing to the kitchen door?

6. How dis Mary keep Dolores warm when she was a baby?

7. What is Frankie's life like before Dolores is born?

8. What is Joe's proposal?

9. What problems is Frankie having at the end of part one, chapter three?

10. How does Joe's proposal make Frankie doubt himself and his family?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is memory not necessarily accurate? Bearing in mind how much Dolores's get wrong in her relationship with her sisters, how much can the reader trust the passages Dolores has narrated ?

Essay Topic 2

What problems do Dolores's generation face? How are the problems for Dolores's generation different to the problems her father's generation faced? Identify and discuss a significant problem facing your generation.

Essay Topic 3

Why don't Frankie and Mary don't trust each other? How does their lack of trust for each other affect their relationships with their children?

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