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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. Why does Grace’s family leave for Canada?

2. What year is it at the beginning of Alias Grace?

3. What pattern would Grace use if she made a quilt for herself?

4. What does the poem say is how Grace convinced McDermott to murder?

5. What does Mary think Grace should do instead of being a servant?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Dr. Jordan help Mrs. Humphreys’ situation?

2. What happens to Grace’s mother and how does her father take care of them?

3. What does Grace say about her family in her confession at the beginning of Chapter 5?

4. Where is Grace taken after her encounter with the doctor and what does she describe there?

5. What does Grace say is in the governor’s wife’s scrapbook and what does Grace say about some of it?

6. What does Grace talk about counting at the beginning of the Chapter and why does she change the way she counts?

7. What does Grace tell Dr. Jordan about working at Mrs. Parkinson’s with Mary?

8. To whom does Mrs. Burt introduce Grace and what position does that woman hold? How does the woman help Grace?

9. What is the poem in Chapter 2 about?

10. Describe the scene where Grace dreams the peddler has something to give her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Upon her release from prison, the historical Grace was required to fill out a questionnaire, which still exists. The questionnaire asks the immediate cause of the crime for which Grace went to prison. She writes as an answer that it was from working in a house which also had a villain working there.

Discuss the above statement in terms of what Grace claims happened when Nancy and Thomas Kinnear were killed and in terms of what James McDermott says happened. Use examples from Alias Grace to support your response.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the following:

Identify the protagonists of the story and why you believe they are such? Identify the antagonists of the story and why you believe they are such? Which three secondary characters have the greatest impact on the plot? Which, if any, characters are not essential to the story? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Grace’s mother dies on the way to Canada. Grace’s father is alcoholic and abusive.

Discuss how Grace’s family life helped play a role in landing her in prison. Use examples from Alias Grace to support your response.

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