A Gathering of Days Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Joan W. Blos
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 120 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

A Gathering of Days Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

Joan W. Blos
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 120 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What new items do the Hall girls need when spring comes?
(a) Aprons.
(b) Shoes.
(c) Hats.
(d) Dresses.

2. What keeps Catherine home from school?
(a) She must help at home.
(b) A snowstorm.
(c) Scarlet fever.
(d) The flu.

3. What is Mr. Holt's profession?
(a) Farmer.
(b) Tracker.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Minister.

4. Asa tells Catherine that he has information about what?
(a) Birthday gifts.
(b) The apparition.
(c) Matty's illness.
(d) Lucy's background.

5. Catherine finds a note that tells her to ________________________.
(a) come to the woods at midnight.
(b) write a poem.
(c) read a love letter.
(d) meet someone at the stone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Catherine's infant brother who died?

2. What does Catherine long to do as Chapter 2 ends?

3. Who teaches Catherine and her sister housekeeping techniques?

4. How old does Catherine turn in Chapter 8?

5. Catherine tells her father about boys who ________________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Asa's philosophical stance on continuing to take punishment for things he did not do?

2. What changes must Mr. Holt make in order to appease the townspeople related to his moral teachings?

3. How does the author use the metaphor of a growing infant to indicate the change in seasons?

4. Why does Catherine feel so much stress about helping the phantom?

5. Who becomes ill in the Hall household and who cares for this person?

6. Uncle Jack and Mr. Hall are both against slavery but have different views on how to address it. What are their conflicting views on a solution?

7. What is Asa's complaint regarding math studies at school?

8. How does the Hall family spend its first Thanksgiving since the death of Mrs. Hall?

9. How do Cassie and Asa react to Catherine's spotting of an apparition?

10. What incident regarding some boys and the thin ice does Catherine tell her father and what is his response?

(see the answer keys)

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