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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 activity is simply too painful for Stephen to continue now with the absence of her late father?

2. During the Gordon family's Christmas rituals, what two characters' relational tension hang over the festivities?

3. Sir Phillip desires Stephen attend which university?

4. Who at the Morton residence initially discovers the furiously written letter concerning Angela and Stephen's relationship?

5. What reason does Angela give as to why she is struggling to accept her relationship with Stephen?

Short Essay Questions

1. After his accident, why doesn't Sir Phillip want to take any medication?

2. How do Angela and Stephen deal with their relationship after Stephen's botched marriage proposal?

3. How do Stephen and Martin spend their time together, and what is the reaction from the neighborhood to the budding new friendship?

4. What does Stephen name her second horse?

5. What relieves the tension in the Morton household around Christmastime when Stephen is eighteen years old?

6. How does Angela react to the emotional letter Stephen sends to her after their broken date in the park?

7. Where do Stephen and Angela share their first date?

8. What does Stephen think about Angela's husband when she meets him for the first time?

9. What is Stephen's reaction to the news of her father's death?

10. Where do Stephen and Angela share their first kiss?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When the war begins, Stephen is quick to join the military forces. First, describe the job that Stephen is given once she joins the military. Then, describe the irony that Stephen notes about the country of France regarding women, specifically in wartime. How does this irony affect the way Stephen feels about herself as a person and about the country she is serving? Finally, describe the way the war affects Stephen both physically and emotionally. How does Stephen change, as a person, in the year that she serves?

Essay Topic 2

When Stephen meets and falls in love with Angela Crossby, Stephen sees for the first time the inequality regarding gender in her society. First, describe how Stephen and Angela first met. Then, explain how Angela's reaction to Stephen's marriage proposal highlighted the inequality in genders in their society. What could a man offer to his spouse in this society that a woman could not? How did this gender inequality eventually affect the relationship between Stephen and Angela?

Essay Topic 3

Barbara and Jamie have a very tumultuous, yet loving, lesbian relationship through which Stephen learns a lot about herself and her own relationship with Mary. First, describe the relationship between Jamie and Barbara. How do they function together as a couple on a daily basis? Then, describe how Jamie and Barbara are eventually separated? Why was this event of separation the only option for Jamie and Barbara at the time? Finally, describe what Stephen learned about grief and loss through watching Jamie and Barbara's relationship? How did this lesson affect Stephen's own relationship with Mary?

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