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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 white families lived in Rawlings's neighborhood in Cross Creek?

2. What type of farm was Patsy taken to when her mother collected her from Rawlings?

3. How many children did the Townsend family have when they lived next to Rawlings?

4. Which of the following parasites were the Towensend children suffering from?

5. What type of people did Rawlings claim had "been put through the sieve and [now] stand nakedly"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What health problem were the Townsend children suffering from when Mary arrived at their pound party?

2. What parts of Cross Creek added to its beauty, as Rawlings recollected it in the opening chapter of the memoir?

3. How did Rawlings come to shoot a pig in her garden?

4. How did Rawlings become involved in the Townsend children's education?

5. How did Rawlings help Snow Slater after he was abandoned by his family?

6. What type of relationship did Rawlings have with Black Aunt Martha Mickens?

7. How did Mr. Marsh Turner die?

8. What connection did Rawlings see between African-American children and imagination through her experiences with Patsy?

9. Why did Rawlings return Georgia to her father?

10. What type of relationship did George Fairbanks have with women?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When the memoir first opens, Rawlings spends a lot of time discussing the land of Cross Creek and her relationship to it. First, describe the land as Rawlings did in the opening of the memoir. What were your first impressions of the land? Did Rawlings's first impression of Cross Creek remain the same for the duration of the memoir?

Essay Topic 2

The people of Cross Creek were often plagued with poverty although Rawlings rarely states this blatantly. Choose one family from Cross Creek and describe their poverty. How did the family come to be so poor? How did they deal with their poverty? In what ways did Rawlings succeed in showing the poverty of Cross Creek without having to state it directly? How did living among the poor in Cross Creek affect Rawlings's own relationship with money?

Essay Topic 3

Throughout her time in Cross Creek, Rawlings performed many remodeling tasks to her residence, transforming it into a real home. Choose one of the major remodeling jobs Rawlings completed on her home and describe it. Who helped Rawlings with this task? Why did she want to complete it? Then, describe how Rawlings's desire to remodel her home mirrored her desire to remodel herself. How did Rawlings change emotionally as her residence became a home?

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