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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what neighborhood is Barnard College located?
(a) The Upper East Side.
(b) SoHo.
(c) Morningside Heights.
(d) Brooklyn Heights.

2. Who does Pa blame for Mattie’s ambition to attend college?
(a) Miss Wilcox.
(b) Royal Loomis.
(c) Miss Parrish.
(d) Frank Loomis.

3. Where does Mattie go with Royal when she realizes they are officially dating in Chapter 15?
(a) Auto racing.
(b) Horseback riding.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Boating.

4. The letter that Aunt Josie intercepts from the postmistress in Chapter 14 informs the addressee that she has failed to do what?
(a) Leave the Will.
(b) Sign her marriage certificate.
(c) Fill out voter registration.
(d) Pay back-taxes.

5. Who wrote The House of Mirth?
(a) Emily Bronte.
(b) Charlotte Bronte.
(c) Emily Dickinson.
(d) Edith Wharton.

6. What is the name of Mattie’s older brother?
(a) Peter Gokey.
(b) Gerald Gokey.
(c) Lawton Gokey.
(d) Michael Gokey.

7. Pa tells Mattie in Chapter 12 that if she leaves the family to go to college, then he will do what?
(a) See that she has the money to start her career.
(b) Give her the inheritance left by his aunt.
(c) See that she obtains a good dowry.
(d) o longer welcome her into his home.

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

9. Grace Brown’s last letter to Chester Gillette was dated when?
(a) July 1, 1905.
(b) July 11, 1906.
(c) June 16, 1905.
(d) July 5, 1906.

10. On what date does the narrator begin the story while describing standing on the porch of the Glenmore?
(a) July 14, 1905.
(b) July 12, 1906.
(c) September 1, 1905.
(d) June 16, 1899.

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

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

13. Who is the tax collector that Aunt Josie intercepts a letter from in Chapter 14?
(a) Mr. Maxwell.
(b) Francois Pierre Gauthier.
(c) Belinda Becker.
(d) Arn Satterlee.

14. Who runs the floating grocery store/lending library in Eagle Bay?
(a) Mr. Eckler.
(b) Weaver Smith.
(c) Mr. Maxwell.
(d) Mr. Anderson.

15. Barnard College has been associated with what university since 1900?
(a) Princeton University.
(b) Boston University.
(c) Rutgers University.
(d) Columbia University.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Royal Loomis respond when Mattie tells him about her desires to go to college?

2. Each chapter in A Northern Light opens with what?

3. Mattie has heard that the works of Emily Baxter are what before she reads them?

4. How is Uncle Fifty related to Mattie?

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

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