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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 did the Townsends serve for dinner at their party?
2. How many guests did the Townsends invite to their party?
3. What did Moe Sykes do for a living?
4. Where did Tome Morrison live with his wife and children?
5. Why did Rawlings demand that Leroy leave her property?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Rawlings believe Martha would have become in life had she been born white?
2. How did Rawlings come to live in Cross Creek?
3. How did Rawlings acquire the antique bed in her house?
4. What types of physical maladies were the Slaters suffering from, and why weren't there maladies being treated?
5. Why did Rawlings return Georgia to her father?
6. What type of relationship did Rawlings notice between young and old magnolia trees while she was living in Cross Creek?
7. What type of relationship did Rawlings have with Black Aunt Martha Mickens?
8. What type of relationship did George Fairbanks have with women?
9. How did Rawlings become involved in the Townsend children's education?
10. What type of relationship did Rawlings have with the Mickens family while they were employed by her?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Rawlings had a fascination with the flowers in Cross Creek but particularly with the magnolia trees. First, describe the magnolia trees and explain their life cycle. What relationship do young magnolia trees have to old magnolia trees? What symbolism did Rawlings find in the groves of magnolia trees? How did Rawlings's relationship with the magnolia trees in Cross Creek directly mirror or reflect her relationship with her own family?
Essay Topic 2
Throughout the course of the memoir, Rawlings both hires servants. How does Rawlings' describe "wage-slavery"? how does this compare to other hired servants? Describe Rawlings's personal beliefs concerning the effects white people have on the lives on the black servants they hire. What role did Rawlings believe she had on the lives of her servants. Do you agree with her beliefs?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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