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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 name of the Spencer family pet?

2. How much will the animal that the mission needs cost?

3. What is David's big project?

4. Some students have come to school without what?

5. The highlanders are in awe of who with her Quaker ways and speech?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the relationship between love and learning and how does Christy discover it?

2. Is Christy an optimist?

3. As Christy revisits the Gap, many things bring back memories for her. What are some of those things?

4. Describe Mr. Pentland.

5. When the phone comes to Cutter Gap, everyone is excited. Explain how this seems contradictory to the rest of the book so far.

6. Explain how sewing buttons on a coat helped Christy to make progress with the children.

7. Are the mountain people mean and impersonal on purpose, in your opinion?

8. Do you think that it was Christy's business to try to mend the rift between Ruby Mae's parents?

9. Briefly describe Dr. MacNeill's family history.

10. What lesson does Christy learn about vanity on the first day of school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discussion of the shadow of the mountain foreshadows the death of Christy's friend, Fairlight, in the book. List and describe, in detail, three other examples of how the author, Catherine Marshall, uses foreshadowing in the book.

Essay Topic 2

Answer each of the following questions about Miss Alice using examples from the story:

1. How was Miss Alice's faith in God tested when she was young?

2. How was Miss Alice's faith in God tested in regard to her daughter?

3. Why is Miss Alice so strongly attached to Christy?

4. Do you think that you would still have faith if you had had Miss Alice's life? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

The mountain people are very self-reliant and wary of outsiders. Write about two concrete examples of that from the story. One should be an example of how that attitude helped one of them. The other should be about a time that that attitude hurt one of them. Based on your findings, write about whether you feel that self-reliance is a good or bad trait and why.

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