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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the mother tell her daughter to do when summing someone up?
(a) Get references.
(b) Have a conversation.
(c) Observe how they are dressed.
(d) Take her time.

2. How often did the old man walk to town?
(a) Every other day.
(b) Every day.
(c) Twice a week.
(d) Once a week.

3. What type of look did the mother give her daughter when the man said he would not take extra money?
(a) Joyous.
(b) Ecstatic.
(c) Victorious.
(d) Triumphant.

4. What did the mother do as she considered the man's request to trade the umbrella for money?
(a) Leaned against the building.
(b) Chewed her lower lip.
(c) Twirled a lock of hair.
(d) Pulled her daughter closer to her.

5. For how many years did the old man say that he would not take any more than a pound for the umbrella?
(a) A thousand.
(b) A hundred.
(c) A million.
(d) Fifty.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much did the man say that the umbrella cost him?

2. How many times a day could the old man walk to town?

3. How did the girl describe how the man moved as they tried to keep up with him?

4. How did the old man get to town?

5. Why did the mother say that she never had a silk umbrella before?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the old man tell the mother and daughter that he got to town?

2. Why did the mother decide the man was up to something when she and her daughter watched him scurry away?

3. What did the daughter observe about her mother as she thought about the old man's offer?

4. What type of look did the girl give her mother as her mother reached for the clasp of her purse?

5. What did the old man say about the umbrella as the mother thought about giving him a pound for it?

6. What did the mother tell the man before she gave him any money?

7. Why did the old man not walk home?

8. What did the old man say when the mother offered to give him the taxi fare?

9. What did the mother say when the daughter asked why she was so horrid to the old man in the beginning?

10. What happened when the mother gave the old man a pound note?

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