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

2. Uncle Fifty shows up in Chapter 11 with a bundle of money from where?
(a) A lumberjacking expedition.
(b) A coal mining expedition.
(c) A gold mining expedition.
(d) A poker game win.

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

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

5. What does Mattie discover the works of Emily Baxter actually celebrate?
(a) Masculine independence.
(b) Racial segregation.
(c) Immoral sexual acts.
(d) Women’s independence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Mattie’s five-year-old sister?

2. What is the only book Mattie’s Aunt Josie suggests she read?

3. What does Mattie impulsively spend most of her money on at the grocery store/lending library in Eagle Bay?

4. Who wrote The House of Mirth?

5. Grace Brown’s last letter to Chester Gillette was dated when?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the crisis that occurs in the opening of A Northern Light? How does this crisis involve the protagonist of the novel?

2. What is an example from the novel of Mattie’s tendency for romantic idealization?

3. How is the character of Aunt Josie depicted in the novel? What are Aunt Josie’s principle concerns?

4. What parallels does Mattie make between her situation and that of Grace Brown in Chapter 10?

5. How is Minnie Compeau’s character described in Chapter 2?

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

7. How is the character of Lawton Gokey described in the novel? How have Lawton’s actions influenced Mattie’s situation?

8. What is Aunt Josie’s reply when Mattie asks her for financial assistance in Chapter 8?

9. What does Aunt Josie discover about Emmie Hubbard in Chapter 14? How does she make this discovery?

10. What exchange takes place between Pa and Miss Wilcox in Chapter 12? What repercussions does this have for Mattie?

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