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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 does Christy discover in the locked room at Dr. MacNeill's cabin?
2. Christy insists on helping Ruby Mae for what reason?
3. Christy and David wait for how many days before Dr. MacNeill is able to find time to meet with them?
4. Opal explains that who had an unhappy history?
5. They hang curtains made of what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Christy's dream for the mountain people and how does she begin to put it into practice, in Chapters 31 and 32?
2. 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.
3. What is Opal's approach to handling Birds-Eye and his men?
4. Summarize Miss Alice's history.
5. Explain how the events of Tom McHone's Death may impact the future of Cutter Gap.
6. What reason does Dr. MacNeill give for helping the blockaders and do you agree with it?
7. Why is Christy upset with Dr. MacNeill over the whole incident involving the blockaders?
8. Explain why David is initially opposed to Ruby Mae's marriage.
9. 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?
10. Why do you think Miss Alice is reluctant to allow Christy to help her care for Ruby Mae and did Christy make the right choice in going anyway?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
CHRISTY is a novel about the author's mother, who moves from an affluent city to the mountains to teach school in a small mountain community, Cutter Gap. Using examples from the story to back up your answers, answer the following questions about Christy's move to Cutter Gap:
1. Explain why Christy moved to Cutter Gap.
2. What shocking things did Christy discover about Cutter Gap, shortly after her arrival?
3. If you were Christy, would you have moved to Cutter Gap? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
The children of Cutter Gap are quite unique. They haven't had much of a proper education and have many idiosyncrasies. Answer the following questions about those children:
1. In what ways do the children of Cutter Gap have disadvantages?
2. In what ways do the children of Cutter Gap have advantages?
3. How do the children change throughout the book and are those changes good or bad?
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