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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 23-26.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Reading Grace Brown’s letters, Mattie discovers that Grace was what in Chapter 16?
(a) Widowed.
(b) An orphan.
(c) Pregnant.
(d) Currently married.

2. What is the name of Miss Wilcox’s estranged husband who appears in Chapter 17?
(a) Teddy.
(b) Andrew.
(c) James.
(d) Peter.

3. Excerpts from what historical documents are included in A Northern Light?
(a) Chester Gillette’s murder transcripts.
(b) Grace Brown’s letters.
(c) Chester Gillette's letters.
(d) The Declaration of Independence.

4. Where did Emily Dickinson spend her life?
(a) San Francisco, California.
(b) Caspar, Wyoming.
(c) Amherst, Massachusetts.
(d) New York, New York.

5. How long must Mattie leave her work at the hotel to tend to ill relatives in Chapter 25?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 1 week.
(c) 1 month.
(d) 2 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the tax collector that Aunt Josie intercepts a letter from in Chapter 14?

2. What mountain range is the backdrop in the novel’s setting?

3. How much is the tip that Mr. Maxwell leaves Mattie after exposing himself in Chapter 21?

4. Pa tells Mattie in Chapter 12 that if she leaves the family to go to college, then he will do what?

5. The Glenmore Hotel is located by what body of water?

(see the answer key)

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