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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does John ask Margaret to stop doing?
2. Why does John not hear Margaret when she tells him about her housekeeping skills?
3. How does John react when Harriet cries?
4. What doos Margaret pretend to tell the butler off for?
5. Who does Maggie say is the only person John thinks about?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Choose one of the following and discuss how it affects the tone of the book and helps to express character and theme:
1. Setting
2. Point of view
3. Structure
4. Language
Essay Topic 2
Gerstenberg gives three of her main characters alter ego's with names that she has abbreviated from his or her's full name. For example, Harriet becomes Hetty. Pick one of the following characters and his or her alter ego and examine what meaning his or her's name brings to the two sides of his or her's personality:
1. Harriet/Hetty.
2. Margaret/Maggie.
3. John/Jack.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss elements of the narrative structure: exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the book's themes?
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