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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 Randall Gerrard?
2. Who does Catherine tell the sheriff she saw on her way out to the tenant shack?
3. Who is Betty?
4. What did Catherine call her father's nurse as a child?
5. What does Catherine assume about the woman whose body she discovered because of the location?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do we learn about Catherin Linton in the first chapter and what do these descriptions tell us about her character?
2. What does Catherine decide to do after making her discovery in the tenant house? Does her emotional state deter her?
3. Why do Randall and Tom both pay Catherine a visit at her house after she comes home from the sheriff's office on the day she finds the body?
4. What was Catherine and Randall's relationship like prior to the incident of Catherine discovering Leona Gaites' body? Why does the relationship head in a different directions afterward?
5. What do we learn about Catherine's parents in Chapter 2 and under what circumstances is this information revealed?
6. Why doesn't Catherine stop at either of the two houses on the dirt road to ask for help?
7. What does Catherine tell Randall that she wants for her parents? What does this say about her part in the novel?
8. Who is interested in Tom Mascalco? Why does this person confide in Catherine? What is this person's reaction to Catherine and Tom's friendship?
9. What does Catherine learn from Salton Sims about Leona Gaites? How is his revelation verified?
10. When does Catherine figure out who the killer is? How?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In the beginning of the novel, we meet a depressed and withdrawn Catherine Linton, and the tone of the novel also seems somber and full of imagery related to isolation. However, this mood seems to change as Catherine's character grows and develops through the novel. Can you identify a parallel between the Catherine's mood throughout the novel and the mood of the novel itself? Is this a writing technique of the author used on purpose? What effect does it have on the novel and on the development of the plot? Provide examples.
Essay Topic 2
At points in the novel, the author uses imagery to conjure up a feeling or mood in the novel or to create suspense or suspicion. Discuss the imagery used in "Sweet and Deadly." Provide examples of places in the novel where the author employs imagery to display a mood and where the author uses the imagery to create suspense. Also, try to find other places in the novel where the author uses vivid or descriptive imagery and explain what this imagery conveys to the reader. In short, how does the imagery used by the author affect the novel?
Essay Topic 3
In most novels, setting can play a big part in the development of the novel and the characters. Describe the town of Lowfield as the setting of the novel. How is the novel affected by the fact that it is set in a small town? Provide examples. Would the novel have played out differently if it had been set somewhere else? How?
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