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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. Where did the narrator want to go when it started raining?

2. When did the incident that the narrator describes happen?

3. How did the narrator describe the man's face?

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

5. What color hair did the man have who approached the narrator and her mother?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did the man say he had forgotten?

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

4. How does the narrator describe herself and her mother?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The mother uses the incident with the old man to teach her daughter a lesson. What lesson does the mother attempt to teach her daughter? How does the mother seem to take her duties as a mother seriously? What do her actions reveal about motherhood and her desire to care for her daughter?

Essay Topic 3

An old man approaches a woman and her daughter. Why does the man approach the woman and her daughter? Why is the woman suspicious of the man and his motives?

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