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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 Grandpa offer to do for Love after talking with the fancy visitor?

2. Why does Grandpa say he is getting a horse for Love?

3. What is destroyed by the dangerous animals on the camping trip?

4. Why do most people say Will survived the train?

5. What did Loma want to become?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Grandpa tell Will he is getting a horse for Love?

2. How does Mary respond when she hears that her father is getting remarried?

3. Why did the men and women in Cold Sassy like Love before her marriage to Grandpa Blakeslee?

4. Why do the people in Cold Sassy think Love did not marry her ex-fiancé?

5. What does Will do on the day he decides to end his period of mourning for Granny?

6. How does Will feel just after the train passes over him on the trestle?

7. How does Will feel about his Grandfather's engagement, and why does he feel this way?

8. What happens when the fancy man comes to visit Love?

9. What did Granny do for Love during her first year in town?

10. Why does Grandpa not like going to church?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the key examples of gratitude in this book, and how do these instances affect the characters involved?

Essay Topic 2

What secrets does Love keep during this book, and how has each of these secrets affected her life and her role in the book?

Essay Topic 3

What does Will think is the difference between mourning and being in mourning, and how does this idea change his opinion of some of the people in his family?

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