Eveline- Review for the Summative Assessment
Part I: LOTS: Answer the following questions with a short answer.
1. Where did Eveline live?
2. When does the story take place?
3. What does Eveline remember from her childhood?
4. Why was Eveline willing to leave her father?
5. List TWO ways in which Frank courted Eveline.
6. "She had hard life". What TWO duties did Eveline have?
7. Where did Eveline go on Saturday night?
8. What did Harry do for a living?
9. Where was Eveline sitting throughout most of the story?
10. Where did Eveline work? What was her job
11. Both Frank and Eveline's father tell her stories. Name one of them.
12. What did Eveline promise her mother?
13. Where was Eveline going to travel with Frank?
14. Name TWO objects at Eveline's home.
15. "He is in Melbourne now." Who was Eveline's father talking about?
Part II: HOTS. Answer these questions in a short paragraph.
Support your answer with examples from the story.
1. Why did Eveline want to leave her home? List THREE reasons.
2. Eveline's home is full of dust. What does it symbolize?
3. What do the familiar objects symbolize?
4. Water is both a positive and a negative symbol-explain.
5. What made Eveline stay in Dublin?
6. "Damn Italians, coming over here". Who said that? What does this
show about his character?
7. Give an example of an oxymoron. What does it show about Eveline
8. Why did the writer include so many flashbacks in the story. What do
they reveal about Eveline?
Part III: Extended HOTS Questions.
For each question write which Thinking Skill helped you answer it.
Support your answer with information from the story. Use words
connected to the thinking skill.
1. In what way was Eveline similar to her mother?
2. Eveline made the mistake of her life by not going with Frank.
Discuss.
3. Did you think Eveline would go with Frank to another country?
Explain
4. How was Eveline influenced by the memory of her mother's death?
5. Why is the word home repeated in the story?
6. Why did Eveline's father dislike Frank?
7. Why did Eveline feel so tired?
8. What made Eveline date Frank?
9. How was Eveline different from her mother in her views of women's
roles?
10. She stood up in a sudden impulse of terror. Escape! She must
escape! What in the story prepares us for Eveline's actions?
Part IV: Bringing Text and Context
1. "James Joyce was born in Dublin, as the son of John Stanislaus
Joyce, an impoverished gentleman. Joyce's mother, Mary Jane
Murray, was ten years younger than her husband. Her life was
dominated by the Roman Catholic Church. The family was poor and
there a constant struggle for ways to support the family."(from
Joyce's biography)
Make a connection between the above description and the story.
Support your answer with information from the story.
2. "When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to
hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion.
I shall try to fly by those nets." (JAMES JOYCE, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)
Make a connection between the above quote and the story. Support your
answer with information from the story.