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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 poet wrote about Elaine the Lily Maid?

2. What did Miss Stacy speak to the teen girls about when she took them down to the brook?

3. What did Moody Spurgeon do to settle his nerves before the Entrance exam?

4. What kind of flowers was Anne carrying when she and Marilla saw Matthew fall across the threshold?

5. How many students took the Entrance exam?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Anne and Marilla react when Matthew dies?

2. Describe Anne, her dress, and her hair at the concert at the White Sands Hotel.

3. What is Marilla moved to tell Anne in Chapter 34 and how does Anne respond?

4. Describe how Anne, Diana, Ruby Gillis and Jane Andrews decide to dramatize Tennyson's "Elaine".

5. What were the results of the Entrance Examination?

6. Why is Anne up in her room buried in her pillows?

7. Who are the two girls Anne becomes friendly with at Queen's and what are they like ?

8. What actually happens during this dramatization of the lily maid?

9. What does Miss Stacy tell Marilla she wants to do when she visits her in chapter 30?

10. What are the results of the final examinations on the bulletin board?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Describe Mrs. Peter Blewett and explain why Marilla decides to keep Anne at Green Gables rather than hand her over to Mrs. Blewett.

2) Explain what Anne means when she says, "There's no scope for the imagination here"

3) Describe Anne's first attempt at nightly prayers and Marilla's reaction.

4) Choose one of the three topics to write on.

Essay Topic 2

1) Write a description of Anne's life before she came to live with Matthew and Marilla. Who were her parents? With whom did

she live? What did she have to do?

2) Compare Marilla's and Mrs. Lynde's personalities. How are they different , how the same?

3) Describe Anne's effect on Matthew. How does she change his personality?

4) Choose one of the three to write about.

Essay Topic 3

1) Anne finds in Diana a bosom friend and a kindred spirit. Did you have a close friend, whom you felt was a kindred spirit in your childhood?

Describe him or her.

2) Anne anthropomorphizes non-humans throughout the book, especially in the beginning of the book. Have you ever anthropomorphized

anything? what? Do you find the way Anne views brooks as laughing etc. as charming? Does anthropomorphizing make the world more

interesting and lovable to you?

3) Choose one of the other children described in the book , describe him or her and why you like or dislike him or her.

4) Choose one of the three topics to write on.

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