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

3. Where did the narrator and her mother stand trying to get a taxi?

4. How many cavities did the narrator have?

5. How did the narrator describe a man that came up to her and her mother?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did the man say he had forgotten?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

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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