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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 type of people does Theresa talk to during her days?

2. What keeps Clement from straying from his marriage?

3. Who throws Ruth overboard a boat in order to teach her to swim?

4. What is Amanda in relation to Ruth?

5. How long does it take for Amanda, Carl, and Ruth to adjust and settle in as a family?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Amanda's thoughts involving her pregnancy?

2. How do Amanda, Mathilda, and Rudy end up on the island?

3. Where does Ruth often take Imogene to visit?

4. What is Ruth's behavior toward Hilda?

5. Why can't Amanda face returning to the island?

6. What occurs when Clement prepares to go to Washington?

7. Discuss Amanda's visits to the Bait and Tackle shop.

8. Discuss the role of religion in Part 1, Chapter 5.

9. How do Amanda's parents die?

10. What does Clement contemplate in Part 1, Chapter 5?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the friendship between Ruth and Imogene and the effect it has on each of them as well as those around them.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the organization of Part 1 of the novel with that of Part 2. How do the sections differ? Why does the author divide the novel into two parts?

Essay Topic 3

One theme of the novel is tragedy. Discuss and describe how the novel falls into this theme as well as other themes the novel may fall into.

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