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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mack have to do before he can leave the mine?

2. What day is it at the beginning of Chapter 16?

3. Who has attended the hanging with Mack?

4. Why does Lizzie want to call off the wedding to Jay?

5. What does Lizzie need to do in order to view the mines?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the year-and-a-day law?

2. What does Lady Alicia feel about Jay's decision to marry, and what does she want her husband to give Jay as a gift?

3. What is the content of the Prologue in A PLACE CALLED FREEDOM?

4. What is life like for Mack in London?

5. Why do the shippers boycott Mack and his gang, and what role does Lennox play in it?

6. What deal does Lady Alicia try to strike with her husband regarding Jay and his management of the coal on the Hallim land?

7. What topics does Jay need to speak to his father about while in London?

8. Why do the Jamissons enter into a conspiracy about the coal that Lizzie cannot know about?

9. Why does Lizzie call off the wedding?

10. What are Mack's plans for leaving Scotland?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Follett use the literary technique of local color in A PLACE CALLED FREEDOM? What elements comprise local color? Give some examples of the local color in Scottish establishments, in the characters, and in the events.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Jay and Mack. Both men want influence over Lizzie but have their hold on her in very different ways. Why are their differences classic examples of conflict in fiction? What other similarities and differences are there between the two characters?

Essay Topic 3

Project into the future ten years and write a brief synopsis for Mack and Lizzie's lives. Be sure to include emotional states as well as physical characteristics, geographic locations, work, hobbies, and socialization.

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