Autumn: A Novel Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Ali Smith
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 122 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Autumn: A Novel Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

Ali Smith
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 122 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. How long has Wendy lived in the village?

2. How old is Elisabeth Demand as the book begins?

3. After Daniel makes clothes from leaves in his dream, what does he see on the shore?

4. When was the map published that Wendy nails to the kitchen wall?

5. In 1995, what color was the lacy stuff that Daniel described to Elisabeth that was in a collage he once saw?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Elisabeth was 13, what did Wendy decide about Elisabeth's relationship with Daniel?

2. In 1993, what did Daniel tell Elisabeth about his name?

3. What does Elisabeth try to do at the post office in pages 1-52, and how successful is she?

4. What does Daniel want at the end of the description of him being inside a tree?

5. In 1993, what did Elisabeth's mother tell her to do instead of interviewing Daniel for the school assignment?

6. In pages 53-57, when Elisabeth and Wendy go for a walk and find a fence blocking the way, what does Wendy say that she is tired of?

7. What conversation did Elisabeth and Wendy have when Elisabeth was 13?

8. In 1993, why did Elisabeth want to talk to Daniel when he was her neighbor?

9. How is Elisabeth described in pages 1-52?

10. In pages 1-52, what does Elisabeth discover when she goes to visit Daniel, and what does she do while she sits with him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How were both Elisabeth and Daniel interested in Pauline Boty? How did their interest affect their lives?

Essay Topic 2

How is Wendy hypocritical toward others? How does her hypocrisy cause her to treat truth as being relative? Why does that lead to moral relativism?

Essay Topic 3

At the end of the novel even though it is November, a rose is blooming. What does the rose symbolize about Daniel and about the love between Elisabeth and Daniel?

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