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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the hotel manager that Grace informs about Chester Gillette’s identity in the novel?
(a) Mr. Morrison.
(b) Mr. Thompson.
(c) Mr. Maxwell.
(d) Mr. Eckler.

2. Where does is say Grace Brown lived on the register at the hotel?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) Troy.
(c) South Otselic.
(d) North Hartford.

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

4. Who announces that Uncle Fifty has skipped town?
(a) Emmie Hubbard.
(b) Mr. Eckler.
(c) Tommy Hubbard.
(d) Mr. Maxwell.

5. What is the name of Mattie’s five-year-old sister?
(a) Abby Gokey.
(b) Ellen Gokey.
(c) Louisa Gokey.
(d) Beth Gokey.

6. Mattie’s Aunt Josie is married to what kind of businessman?
(a) A cattle rancher.
(b) A coal mine owner.
(c) A sawmill owner.
(d) A dairy farm owner.

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

8. What has happened to Lawton Gokey in the novel?
(a) He’s left his family.
(b) He was murdered in Atlanta.
(c) He’s been put away in prison.
(d) He’s been hanged for murder.

9. What exams do Mattie and Weaver take in Chapter 11?
(a) Their entrance exams for college.
(b) Their exit exams for high school.
(c) Their entrance exams for medical school.
(d) Their bar exams.

10. What is the name of the man who checked into the hotel with Grace Brown in the novel?
(a) Lawton Gokey.
(b) Carl Grahm.
(c) Francois Pierre Gauthier.
(d) Frank Loomis.

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

12. What’s the name of the boat that is dragging the lake in the beginning of the novel?
(a) The Machida.
(b) The Zilpha.
(c) The Santa Maria.
(d) The U.S.S. Constitution.

13. What is the name of Mattie’s mother who passed away?
(a) Sarah Gokey.
(b) Ellen Gokey.
(c) Louisa Gokey.
(d) Beth Gokey.

14. Where did Grace Brown’s parents live?
(a) Troy, New York.
(b) Princeton, New Jersey.
(c) South Otselic, New York.
(d) Hartford, Connecticut.

15. What is the last name of Mattie’s Aunt Josie?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Aber.
(c) Wilson.
(d) Smith.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Papa respond when he discovers Mattie’s spent most of her money at the floating lending library?

2. Reading Grace Brown’s letters, Mattie discovers that Grace was what in Chapter 16?

3. What movement is the writer Emily Baxter associated with in the novel?

4. What did Mattie’s mother die from in the novel?

5. What is the name of Mattie’s fourteen-year-old sister?

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