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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 does the man have in his sack as he approaches the house?
2. From what material was the kitchen set made?
3. What word does the author use for chest of drawers in the story?
4. What does the girl do as the boy sits on the couch with a cigarette looking at the TV?
5. How much does the man say he was thinking of asking for the bed?
Short Essay Questions
1. What items does the boy tell the man they are interested in when the man first arrives?
2. What does the boy do when he first gets to the house and begins looking at the things?
3. What does the boy say he is going to do if anybody is home after he gets off the bed?
4. How did people react when they drove by and saw all of the man's things outside his house? What does the man realize he has in common with these people?
5. What is the first thing the man says to the girl when he sees the two at his house?
6. Why does the boy pull over when he sees all of the things outside the man's house?
7. Instead of seeing if anyone is home as he said he would, what does the boy do after the girl asked him to kiss her?
8. Why is the boy hesitant to lay on the bed with the girl when she asks him?
9. What two things does the boy do "for no good reason" (2) instead of seeing if anyone is home as he said he would?
10. What is inside the man's house at the start of the story?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Examine the use of dialogue vs the use of description. Look at how each is used in the story and what makes these uses effective or ineffective.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay analyzing Carver's decision to tell the story using third person point-of-view shifting from each character's perspective. How does this impact the reader's understanding of the story's events? Is this effective? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay examining the ending of "Why Don't You Dance?" How did the ending fit into the storyline? Do you think the ending was effective? What theme might the ending represent? What might the author have done differently?
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