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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 Grace give as the reason she cannot have sex with McDermott in Kinnear’s bed?

2. Of what does Grace say Mrs. Moodie reminds her?

3. Why does one of Grace’s jailers say he hopes the hanging scaffold is high?

4. Why does Nancy suggest she and Grace sleep in Mr. Kinnear’s bedroom?

5. What does the prison do to a woman if there are too many marks against her?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Nancy say about her situation when she offers Grace a job?

2. What does Rev. Verringer suggest Dr. Jordan talk about with the Tuesday Circle and why does Verringer suggest this?

3. What does Grace say about Nancy and about McDermott after she has been at Kinnear’s a little while?

4. What does Dr. Dupont do with Grace and what does Grace say when Dr. Jordan asks her if she had sex with McDermott?

5. What does Dr. Jordan say McDermott said about the murders and what is Grace’s response?

6. Where does McDermott kill Nancy and what does Grace say he says to Grace?

7. What does Nancy tell McDermott when she is tired of his attitude and what does McDermott then tell Grace?

8. What is Grace’s response to McDermott’s assertion about Nancy’s death?

9. What does Grace tell Dr. Jordan about her birthday and what does Jeremiah ask her a few days after her birthday?

10. Why is Dr. Jordan upset when he leaves the governor’s house at the beginning of Chapter 7?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

Identify the protagonists of the story and why you believe they are such? Identify the antagonists of the story and why you believe they are such? Which three secondary characters have the greatest impact on the plot? Which, if any, characters are not essential to the story? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Upon her release from prison, the historical Grace was required to fill out a questionnaire, which still exists. The questionnaire asks the immediate cause of the crime for which Grace went to prison. She writes as an answer that it was from working in a house which also had a villain working there.

Discuss the above statement in terms of what Grace claims happened when Nancy and Thomas Kinnear were killed and in terms of what James McDermott says happened. Use examples from Alias Grace to support your response.

Essay Topic 3

Oftentimes, a book has more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and oftentimes the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:

What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven or action driven? Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why? Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character are developed to the same degree? Why or why not? What type of plot do you think Alias Grace is? Explain your response.

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