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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 is Mrs. Waters?

2. Where do Ruth's two friends who come to visit her go to stay?

3. Feeling hopeless, where does Ruth go with Netting in Chapter LX?

4. What does Mr. Walter offer Ruth to write for him?

5. Who does Ruth find out recently died in Chapter LIV?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Mrs. Waters and what image does she have of herself?

2. What are the contents of the two fan letters Ruth reads in Chapter LXV?

3. Why does the boarding house housemaid quit her job in Chapter XLVII?

4. What does Mrs. Millet allow Ruth to do every week at her home?

5. Who does Chapter LXXIV focus on?

6. In Chapter LIII when Mrs. Skiddy finds her husband has not returned home from work, where does she find him?

7. What does Mrs. Millet have a conversation about with her husband in Chapter XLIV?

8. What does Ruth worry about despite having found a newspaper to publish her work in Chapter LXII?

9. Who does Katy meet after leaving her grandfather's home in Chapter XLV?

10. What does Mr. Walter tell Mr. Lewis about Ruth in Chapter LXXIX?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What struggles does Ruth face throughout the novel? What causes these struggles? How does she overcome them? How are her struggles associated with the setting of the novel? How are they associated with her background and her family?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the author of the novel "Ruth Hall", Fanny Fern. What others works did she write? What similarities or connections can be found between this novel and Fern's other work? Why did she write "Ruth Hall"?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the motif of separation. Who is separation from whom in the novel and why? How does Ruth deal with this separation? How does she overcome this separation?

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