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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is Louisa Gokey in the novel?
(a) 5.
(b) 11.
(c) 14.
(d) 16.

2. When was Barnard College founded?
(a) 1841.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1789.

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

4. What had Grace Brown given Mattie to burn in A Northern Light?
(a) Her favorite book.
(b) A bank note.
(c) The deed to her parents’ house.
(d) A bundle of letters.

5. Who is the heroine in The House of Mirth?
(a) Emily Wilcox.
(b) Aleeta Smith.
(c) Lily Bart.
(d) Sarah Stuart.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Weaver Smith struggles with his identity in the novel when he is misinterpreted as what at the rail station?

3. When was The House of Mirth first published?

4. What is the name of the man who checked into the hotel with Grace Brown in the novel?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Mattie’s family characterized in Chapter 1? What central tensions in the family are introduced in this chapter?

2. How is the character of Weaver Smith described when he is introduced in Chapter 2?

3. How is the narrative of A Northern Light structured? What are the two timelines that occur in the story?

4. How is the character of Emmie Hubbard described? What information does the reader learn of Emmie’s situation in Chapter 14?

5. What book does Miss Wilcox give to Mattie in Chapter 15? What are Mattie’s impressions of the book?

6. How is the character of Grace Brown depicted in the novel? What is the historical truth of this character?

7. Why does Mattie ask her Aunt Josie for financial help in Chapter 8?

8. What does Mattie realize while out boating with Royal Loomis in Chapter 15? How does she feel about the realization?

9. What promise does Uncle Fifty make to Mattie after he arrives? What gifts does he give to the Gokey children?

10. How does Mattie feel about her involvement in the crisis that occurs in the opening of the novel?

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