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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 31-33.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Reading Grace Brown’s letters, Mattie realizes that who is really named Chester Gillette?
(a) Tommy Hubbard.
(b) James McCready.
(c) Carl Grahm.
(d) Peter Jackson.

2. Mattie sends money to Aleeta Smith to cover what expenses at the end of the novel?
(a) Her daughter’s wedding.
(b) Weaver's college tuition.
(c) A new car.
(d) Emmie Hubbard’s back-taxes.

3. From what narrative perspective is A Northern Light related?
(a) First person.
(b) Second person.
(c) Fourth person.
(d) Third person.

4. Where did Uncle Fifty show up drunk and passed out when he arrived at Mattie’s family home?
(a) On the front porch.
(b) In a manure pile.
(c) In a horse trough.
(d) In a pile of hay.

5. Why is the farm not producing as well as it once was, according to the narrator in Chapter 7?
(a) The flooding has killed the trees.
(b) The drought has caused the plants to die.
(c) The bank foreclosed on half the land.
(d) There aren’t enough hands to work it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has happened with Aleeta Smith’s house in Chapter 31?

2. Who is the suitor that is pursuing Mattie in the beginning of the novel?

3. When Grace Brown was historically murdered, she was supposedly knocked unconscious with what object?

4. Henry, who works at the Glenmore, is originally from where?

5. Excerpts from what historical documents are included in A Northern Light?

(see the answer key)

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