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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 did the mother and daughter have to walk to keep up with the man on page 120?
2. What type of person did the mother think he might be?
3. How many times a day could the old man walk to town?
4. Who did mother think the man might have been?
5. What did the mother do as she considered the man's request to trade the umbrella for money?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did the old man say when the mother offered to give him the taxi fare?
2. What did the mother say when the daughter asked why she was so horrid to the old man in the beginning?
3. How did the old man tell the mother and daughter that he got to town?
4. Why did the mother decide the man was up to something when she and her daughter watched him scurry away?
5. What type of look did the girl give her mother as her mother reached for the clasp of her purse?
6. What did the old man say about the umbrella as the mother thought about giving him a pound for it?
7. What did the daughter observe about her mother as she thought about the old man's offer?
8. Why did the old man not walk home?
9. What did the mother tell the man before she gave him any money?
10. What happened when the mother gave the old man a pound note?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
The mother is not sure whether to help the old man or not. Why does the mother hesitate to help the old man? Why is she suspicious? What alleviates her suspicions and causes her to make the decision to give the man a pound?
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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