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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 many rooms does the cabin that they stop to rest at have?

2. Upon arrival, Christy is directed to Mrs. Tatum's what?

3. What is David's big project?

4. What phrase does the girl with the impediment utter clearly after Christy helps her?

5. In what year did Christy teach?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the situation with the injured man in the Spencer cabin and why it upsets Christy.

2. Is Christy spoiled?

3. Do you feel that Christy is more a teacher or a student and why?

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

5. Does Swannie O'Teale love her oldest son?

6. Catherine Marshall is Christy's daughter. Why does Catherine write a book about her mother?

7. Explain the significance of the trashed school.

8. Explain how David flounders where Aunt Polly Teague is concerned.

9. What is Mrs. Tatum's reaction to Christy's desire to go to Cutter Gap and teach and do you agree with it? Why or why not?

10. Describe the irony of David's opinion that the money for a horse for the mission is only a coincidence.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

List five major differences between Christy's life in Asheville and her life in Cutter Gap. Then, explain whether or not, based on those differences, you feel that Christy should have stayed in Asheville, rather than ever coming to the Gap. What is the reasoning behind your decision?

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

CHRISTY is a book that is full of life lessons.

Part 1: Choose any three major life lessons that the book taught and describe the sections of the book where those lessons were taught. Then, explain which of those three life lessons you feel was the most important and why.

Part 2: Was there anything taught in the book that you disagreed with? If not, why not? If so, what was it and why did you disagree with it?

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