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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 Ruth find at the bottom of a boat?

2. Who dismisses the idea of Clement having feelings for Imogene?

3. Whom will Amanda give her baby to when it is born?

4. Who is Louisa?

5. Whom does Carl question in Part 2, Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't Ruth go to Chicago with Imogene as planned?

2. Discuss the letter Amanda finds.

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

4. Discuss Carl's trip to the Cathedral.

5. Discuss the plan Mathilda concocts involving Amanda and her pregnancy.

6. Discuss Amanda's trip to Clements.

7. Discuss Carl's trip to Clement's carriage house.

8. Discuss the paying job Carl gets.

9. What happens when Clement disappears without a word?

10. What happens when Amanda goes into labor?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role of dialogue in the novel and the effects it has on the story as well as the relationship that readers have with characters.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the role of mothers in the novel. Compare and contrast the mothering styles and abilities of Mathilda, Amanda, and Mary Louise.

Essay Topic 3

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

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