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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 did the narrator say could not stand the frosty-nosed stare of her mother's?

2. How does the narrator describe what happened to her and her mother?

3. How old is the narrator's mother?

4. Why did the narrator's mother want to get a taxi?

5. Where did the narrator and her mother go yesterday?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did the narrator and her mother go after their appointment at the dentist?

2. What was the weather like around six o'clock yesterday and how did that affect what the narrator's mother wanted to do?

3. How did the narrator describe her mother's haughty stare?

4. Where did the narrator and mother go yesterday afternoon and what happened there?

5. How did the narrator's mother look at the man and why?

6. Why did the narrator's mother wish they had a car with a chauffeur?

7. What did the man say he had forgotten?

8. What did the man ask the narrator's mother to give him?

9. Why did the narrator believe that the man was a gentleman?

10. How does the narrator describe a man who comes up to them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The mother is wary of the old man when he approaches because he is a stranger. How does the mother attempt to determine if the old man is trustworthy? Is she able to determine whether the man is trustworthy based on observation and interaction?

Essay Topic 2

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a story. What is the point of view in the story? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

Essay Topic 3

The main characters are a mother and a daughter. What type of relationship do the mother and daughter have? What does their use of body language reveal about their relationship?

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