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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Weaver is beaten up by three men who are what in Chapter 22?
(a) Politicians.
(b) Doctors.
(c) Gravediggers.
(d) Trappers.

2. While reading Emily Dickinson in the beginning of Chapter 23, Mattie realizes that all the authors she admires are what?
(a) Essayists.
(b) Novelists.
(c) Spinsters.
(d) Poets.

3. What has Miss Wilcox’s estranged husband appeared in order to do in Chapter 17?
(a) Convince his wife to give him custody of their children.
(b) Convince his wife to grant him a divorce.
(c) Convince his wife to become a writer.
(d) Convince his wife to return to him.

4. Less than how many of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published in her lifetime?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 9.
(d) 12.

5. Where does Miss Wilcox say she intends to flee to in her letter in Chapter 27?
(a) Madrid.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Mattie learn Royal informed of Emmie Hubbard’s back-taxes in Chapter 29?

2. By what mode of transportation is Mattie leaving in the end of the novel?

3. Royal Loomis tells Mattie that he wants to buy her what in Chapter 18?

4. How long must Mattie leave her work at the hotel to tend to ill relatives in Chapter 25?

5. While reading the works of Emily Dickinson in Chapter 23, Mattie considers whether what is incompatible with being a writer?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the apprehension of the three trappers affect Weaver Smith in Chapter 24?

2. How does Mattie’s relationship with Royal Loomis progress in Chapter 18? How does this relate to Grace Brown’s story?

3. What discovery does Mattie make while reading the works of Emily Dickinson in Chapter 23?

4. What news does Pa bring to Mattie regarding Weaver Smith’s family in Chapter 32?

5. What event takes place surrounding Weaver Smith’s character in Chapter 22?

6. How is the theme of appearances versus reality manifested in A Northern Light?

7. What does Mattie learn about Royal Loomis’s involvement in the foreclosure of Emmie Hubbard’s home in Chapter 29?

8. What work has Mattie begun doing for Miss Wilcox in Chapter 17? What does she discover when she arrives?

9. What are Mattie’s principle concerns about her relationship with Royal in Chapter 18? What does Tommy Hubbard relate to Mattie in this chapter?

10. What information does Miss Wilcox confess to Mattie in Chapter 17?

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