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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 is the first name of Mrs. Swain?
2. What is Una's last name?
3. What type of store caught on fire?
4. Kit calls out whose name while he makes love to Una?
5. Who does Kit demand to talk to during his illness?
Short Essay Questions
1. Una spends a great deal of time with Chester. Examine the friendship between Una and Chester. Also examine some of Una's activities on board the Sussex.
2. What happens while Una is incapacitated with illness?
3. Who are Kit and Giles? How do they meet Una? What brings them to Nantucket?
4. Una decides to dress up as a cabin boy so that she can go out to sea with Kit and Giles. Examine Una's plan. Who does Una meet on the ship?
5. Explain the relationship between Giles and Chester. Who makes the arrangements? How does Una use the arrangement to her advantage?
6. Una begins to think about the return to Nantucket. What are some of the things Una thinks about regarding her future on the island?
7. Una continues to be troubled by her relationship with Kit. Explain Una wandering around in the dark.
8. In chapter seventy-three, it becomes clear to Una that Kit is not going to improve. Discuss some of Kit's actions. What is Una's reaction?
9. Describe the scene in which Una meets Rebekkah Swain.
10. Una and Giles talk about climbing the topsail and feeling like birds out over the ocean. What happens to Giles the next day? What happens to Kit?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Kit and Giles were both objects of Una's affections early in the story. Examine the relationship Una had with each man. Also compare and contrast Kit and Giles on personal and professional levels. Do you think things might have been different if Giles had lived?
Essay Topic 2
Examine the career and professional skills of Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison. Detail each man's educational history, professional status, evolution as an attorney, involvement in the abolitionist movement, and other famous cases in which he participated.
Essay Topic 3
Una is influenced by Aunt Agatha's Unitarian faith and ideas on pacifism. Write a 750 word essay on Aunt Agatha's beliefs, how they differ from Bertha's beliefs, and how they affect Una. Also relate the Unitarian perspective on pacifism and racial equality.
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