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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. Who owned the ruby ring before Frankie?

2. What does Dolores say people search her face for?

3. What does Dolores's father have half a partnership in?

4. Who is looking after Mary's other daughters?

5. What did Joe stop from rolling into a crack in the floorboards?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Frankie prepare to see the bookie?

2. Why does Frankie's theft of the household money cause such a problem for Mary?

3. How did Joe help Frankie out?

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

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

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

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

8. How did Frankie meet Joe?

9. Describe the living conditions in Dolores's Cardiff home.

10. What tattoos does Fran have on her forearm?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the novel's chronological setting.

1. What were the main concerns during the 1960s? How does the author express these concerns?

2. How would the author change the novel if it was set in today's society?

Essay Topic 2

Why do both Mary and Frankie struggle to settle in Cardiff? How different was Malta to Wales in the sixties? How would compatriots view his behavior in Cardiff?

Essay Topic 3

Replace the play's setting with one of the following settings:

1. London.

2. New York

3. Paris.

What new meaning would the new setting give the book? How important is setting for developing meaning in a story?

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