April Showers by Edith Wharton

Theodora hopes her novel will sell so that she can:

• make money to help her family

  
  

• deserve her father’s attention

• make her teachers proud of her

• invest in Uncle James’s

  business

What “unfortunate accident” happens to Theodora’s novel?

• Her novel is lost in the mail

• The editors think Kathleen Kyd wrote it

• Kathleen Kyd’s novel has the same title

• The editors forget to return her novel

When Dr. Dace walks Theodora home from the train, you can infer that he:

• is involved in his children’s lives

• understands what she is feeling

• is angry that she went to Boston

  
  

• requires Theodora to do her chores

Discuss the tone of the author toward Theodora and explain how it changes as the story progresses.

• Tone changes from sympathy for her rejection to mocking her arrogance at the end.

• Tone changes from mocking her arrogance to sympathy for her rejection at the end

• Tone changes from affection to sympathy for her rejection at the end.

• None of the above

How does Edith Wharton stereotype other characters in this story besides Theodora and her father? (Select ANY that apply)

• Mother is helpless.

• Sophy Brill is the town gossip.

• Uncle James is the blowhard businessman.

• Kathleen Kyd is the town gossip