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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 month is it in Chapter 16?

2. What is the name of Tom's friend who has Hutington's disease?

3. In Chapter 23, how early does Magnus usually leave to go fishing?

4. How many passengers does Jack take to the island in Chapter 25?

5. In Chapter 19, what does Anna take to Tom's house for dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Pat come to see Anna in Chapter 16?

2. What does Collette say about Anna going to Lost Cay in Chapter 14?

3. Why is Greg in trouble in Chapter 15?

4. What does Anna learn about her father and his family in Chapter 17?

5. How did Tom's father die?

6. In Chapter 18, who does Anna find at Tom's house?

7. In Chapter 23, what does Tom tell Anna in his letter to her?

8. How do Anna and Tom help Eve in Chapter 13?

9. What type of routine does Anna fall into when she is with her mother in Chapter 23?

10. How does Anna get to Shetland?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Both Anna and Kirsty experience being pregnant and unmarried. How are the choices that Anna and Kirsty make different? What influences each of them to make the choices that they make?

Essay Topic 2

Anna is a person with few friends when the novel opens. How does Anna change in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Anna delivers Kirsty’s baby during a cyclone. What type of relationship do Anna and Kirsty have before the cyclone? How does the cyclone change their relationship and why?

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