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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 take from his sack first when he arrives at the home to find the girl and boy?
2. What does the boy say to the girl when she tells him to kiss her on the bed?
3. Who is the author of "Why Don't You Dance?"?
4. What does the boy say about the pillow when the girl asks how it feels?
5. What item does the boy say is "pretty good" (3) before going to see if anybody is home?
Short Essay Questions
1. What items does the boy tell the man they are interested in when the man first arrives?
2. 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?
3. What is inside the man's house at the start of the story?
4. What is the boy's name? What is the girl asking the boy to do the one and only time his name is mentioned in the story?
5. How does the man first appear on the scene? Where is he coming from and what does he have?
6. Why does the girl tell the boy he should offer $10 less than whatever they are asking?
7. What is the first thing the man says to the girl when he sees the two at his house?
8. Where is the man at the very start of the story? What is he doing? What is he looking at?
9. Why is the boy hesitant to lay on the bed with the girl when she asks him?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay comparing and contrasting Jack and the man in "Why Don't You Dance?." What details help develop their character and what do these details tell you about them? What is their background? How do they meet? How do they interact? In what ways are they similar or different? Explain.
Essay Topic 2
Read a review of "Why Don't You Dance?." Write an essay about how this review impacted your own views or understanding of the story.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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