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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 Amanda admit to Ruth in Part 2, Chapter 17?

2. What is the name of the ship Carl gets a paying job on?

3. What does Imogene lose faith in?

4. Whom does Ruth care for in Part 2, Chapter 20?

5. Who is calm when Amanda goes into labor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Amanda yell to Clement while they are on the lake? What does Amanda do after yelling to Clement?

2. What do Amanda and Clement do while on the lake?

3. What happens during Arthur and Ruth's time spent together in Part 2, Chapter 15?

4. Discuss the relationship between Imogene, Arthur, and Ruth.

5. Describe the letter that Ruth writes to Imogene.

6. Discuss the letter Amanda finds.

7. How do Amanda and Ruth survive the fall into the ice that kills Mathilda?

8. Discuss Amanda's trip to Clements.

9. What are Amanda's thoughts on her thumb?

10. What happens at the new dance pavilion?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the relationship between Amanda and Ruth with that of Amanda and Imogene and the effects this has on the characters as well as the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the relationship between the island and the lake in the novel. Support your answer by citing examples from the text in order to explain how and why the two are related in the book.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the relationship between Arthur and Imogene with that of Arthur and Ruth.

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