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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. Before Christy leaves for her break with her family in Asheville, she visits who?
2. Toward morning, who appears at the back door of the Mission House?
3. How many McHone children does Christy walk to school?
4. What horrible thing happens to Tom McHone?
5. Christy reaches the point where she holds who responsible for Fairlight's death and her own anger and resentment?
Short Essay Questions
1. What things is David uncertain about in Chapters 29 and 30 and how do those things cause Christy to be unsure?
2. Explain Christy's inner conflict regarding David and Dr. MacNeill.
3. What reason does Dr. MacNeill give for helping the blockaders and do you agree with it?
4. Explain how the events of Tom McHone's Death may impact the future of Cutter Gap.
5. Explain the funny incident that occurs at the school's closing ceremonies with Creed Allen.
6. Do you agree with Christy accusing Dr. MacNeill of knowing that Tom was shot by Birds-Eye because Tom had decided to change sides because of Dr. MacNeill's visit to the McHones? Why or why not?
7. Should David have gotten the US Marshals involved in finding the moonshine stills, even though it made him a target?
8. What is Opal's approach to handling Birds-Eye and his men?
9. Explain the calling from God that Christy feels in chapters 27 and 28.
10. Explain how David alerting the US Marshals comes back to haunt him with regard to the incidents of Prince's tail and the church pulpit, in chapters 23 and 34.
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
Explain the doctor's loss of faith, using several examples from the book. Also, explain whether or not you think it's possible for doctors, in general, to believe in higher powers. Why or why not? Do you think that faith in unseen things helps or hinders medical professionals?
Essay Topic 3
Choose any character from the book that you want and describe the physical and emotional changes that you feel he/she went through, as the book progressed. Why did those changes take place? What were the results for that character? Also, how did those results impact other characters?
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