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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. Who takes responsibility for the murder?

2. Why does Maud find it difficult to look at Sue?

3. To whom does Mr. Hawtrey compare Maud?

4. What convinces Maud to continue with their plan about the inheritance and Sue?

5. How does Richard contrive to be able to see and talk to Maud every day?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sue say to Maud the first night she is in the bed with Maud and what is Maud's reaction?

2. Why is it ironic that Maud eats and drinks at Mrs. Sucksby's house?

3. How does Sue feel about Maud, who was partially responsible for Sue being in the asylum?

4. What does Maud do with the razor she stole from her uncle?

5. What does Maud think about as she readies for her escape from Briar?

6. What is Mrs. Sucksby's reaction to Maud's return?

7. Describe Maud and Richard's wedding night.

8. What are the key developments in this chapter?

9. Briefly describe Sue's experience in the insane asylum.

10. What does Maud learn when she demands to know where she is when arriving at Mrs. Sucksby's house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The reader begins to see the gloved hands as symbolic of the cocoon of isolation and control in which Maud has been wrapped by her uncle. They become symbolic of her innocence.

1. What do you think is meant by this statement? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Do you think anyone in modern America could be conned the way Maud is being conned? Why or why not?

3. How much blame for what is happening, and will happen to Maud, do you think should be assigned to her uncle? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Chapter 9 touches upon several key themes of the novel: what is goodness, what is innocence, what is truth.

1. Do you think Sue is more innocent than Maud, even being raised by criminals? Why or why not?

2. What are some ways that a child loses innocence in life? Use examples from your life and the book to support your definition.

Essay Topic 3

In this important chapter, the reader learns who Maud is, what she is like, and what forces and factors have made her who she is. She has been held captive in a dismal house and forced to read pornography to her uncle and his friends.

1. Did Maud revealing much of her early background change your opinion of her from Chapter 6? Why or why not?

2. Maud has been taken from a loving environment and thrown into, what seems like hell, to an eleven year old girl. Do you think the experiences at her uncle's house affected her more than the first eleven years of her life with loving nurses? Why or why not?

3. Given what Maud suffers at her uncle's house is she justified to do to Sue what she did? Why or why not?

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