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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. What did the man say happened to old people like him?

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

3. What were the narrator and her mother wearing?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What did the man say he had forgotten?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

The mother and daughter observe the old man drinking whiskey in a pub. How important does drinking whiskey seem to be to the old man? Does he seem to be addicted to alcohol?

Essay Topic 3

The setting or settings in a story are where the action takes place. Do the settings in the story serve as a backdrop to characters or does it almost take on the role of a character? How does the setting evoke feelings or set the tone in the story?

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