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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. In what unlikely place on her property did Rawlings find someone living?

2. How did Rawlings come to own her house in Cross Creek?

3. What was the name of Moe's daughter that became ill?

4. Which of the following body parts did Rawlings break when she fell from a horse and required a steel brace?

5. Which of the following adjectives best described Cross Creek?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Rawlings believe Martha would have become in life had she been born white?

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

5. What type of relationship did Rawlings notice between young and old magnolia trees while she was living in Cross Creek?

6. How did Rawlings come to live in Cross Creek?

7. What types of physical maladies were the Slaters suffering from, and why weren't there maladies being treated?

8. How did Mr. Marsh Turner die?

9. Who were the Townsends, and what was Rawlings's relationship to them?

10. How did Rawlings acquire the antique bed in her house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout her time in Cross Creek, Rawlings got to into various fights and altercations with her neighbors. First, choose one fight that Rawlings instigated with one of her neighbors. What was the outcome of this fight? Then, compare the events of this fight to a fight that a neighbor instigated with Rawlings. How was Rawlings's reaction to the fight different in these two situations? How does this comparison express Rawlings's views on confrontation? How did these fights affect the neighborhood camaraderie in Cross Creek?

Essay Topic 2

Shortly after Rawlings moved to Cross Creek, she was inundated with dating proposals from men who lived there. First, give a brief timeline of Rawlings romantic life throughout the course of the memoir. Then, choose two men who courted and Rawlings and describe them. What was Rawlings's reaction to each of these men's advances? What conclusions did Rawlings make about men in general through the courting process she experienced in Cross Creek? Do you think Rawlings's reactions to the men were too strong?

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the memoir, Rawlings contemplates what it means to be rich and what it means to be poor, even going so far as to say the poor are "a cleaned, naked version of the rich." What do you think Rawlings meant by this statement? To whom was she referring when she made it? Then, choose one rich person and one poor person that lived in Cross Creek. Do you think this statement reflects the relationship between these two people? Finally, describe Rawlings's view on the rich and poor at the end of the memoir. Had her views on these two classes of people changed through her experiences at Cross Creek?

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