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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 does Catherine vow to do about the apparition?

2. What is Mr. Holt's profession?

3. To what do Catherine's thoughts wander in school?

4. What new items do the Hall girls need when spring comes?

5. Why does Catherine miss school in Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. What news does Sophy tell her friends about where she will be going and why she is going there?

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

3. 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?

4. Why does Catherine believe her father responded in a sexist manner when she told him about the boys near the thin ice?

5. What is the first journal entry in the book and by whom is it written?

6. How is Mr. Holt able to sidestep the rules and still teach his moral teachings?

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

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

9. What mystery takes place regarding Catherine's writing book?

10. What does the quilt left for the phantom symbolize?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sophy has been sent to Lowell, Massachusetts to work in the mills. Explain the mills. What did they manufacture? Why were children sent to work at them? Why is Sophy so distraught at being forced to go?

Essay Topic 2

Create a brief character study of Ann. What does she look like? What are her positive personality traits? What are some of her negative characteristics? What are her hopes and fears? What motivates her--if anything--at this point in her life?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the role of girls and women in the 1830s in New England. What precedents do they feel compelled to follow? What restrictions do they have? What freedoms did they have that 21st century women do not have?

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