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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. How old is the narrator's mother?
2. What did the old man say that he forgot?
3. Where did the narrator and her mother go yesterday?
4. Why did the narrator and her mother travel yesterday?
5. Who did the narrator say could not stand the frosty-nosed stare of her mother's?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did the man ask the narrator's mother to give him?
2. How did the narrator describe her mother's haughty stare?
3. Why did the narrator's mother wish they had a car with a chauffeur?
4. What did the man say he had forgotten?
5. Where did the narrator and mother go yesterday afternoon and what happened there?
6. Why did the narrator believe that the man was a gentleman?
7. What was the weather like around six o'clock yesterday and how did that affect what the narrator's mother wanted to do?
8. Where did the narrator and her mother go after their appointment at the dentist?
9. How does the narrator describe herself and her mother?
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
Colors are sometimes associated with mood. If you could assign a color to represent the mood in The Umbrella Man, what color would it be? Why?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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