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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. When Sue is 5 or 6, she watches the movie _____________.
2. Of what are Maud's gloves symbolic?
3. What does Sue realize during the wait for the elopement?
4. From what did Maud's mother really die?
5. What is the main subject of the books in Maud's uncle's library?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Sue tell Maud's fortune and what is Maud's reaction?
2. Why does Sue grow up in Mrs. Sucksby's home?
3. What are the details of the plan Richard concocts to free Maud and get her inheritance?
4. What is the result of the lovemaking between Sue and Maud?
5. What are the circumstances of Sue's mother's death?
6. What happens in this chapter that foreshadows what happens at the insane asylum?
7. How does Sue think of Maud while they are outside by Maud's mother's grave?
8. What is Gentleman's plan?
9. Why does Maud relate the story of her coming to Briar?
10. What does Maud do after dinner?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Sue's description of being lulled into a daze in the asylum must be compared to Maud's life at Briar. Once the comparison is made, the reader must see that the boredom, the sameness of routine, the darkness of their surroundings lull both Sue and Maud into a sort of dazed and complacent compliance.
1. What do you think is meant by this statement? Use examples from the book to support your answer.
2. Compare what is happening to Sue with what you have heard of people held in a long term hostage situation.
3. Explain what you think you would feel and do if you were in Sue's situation.
Essay Topic 2
In this important chapter, the reader learns who Maud is, what she is like, and what forces and factors have made her who she is. She has been held captive in a dismal house and forced to read pornography to her uncle and his friends.
1. Did Maud revealing much of her early background change your opinion of her from Chapter 6? Why or why not?
2. Maud has been taken from a loving environment and thrown into, what seems like hell, to an eleven year old girl. Do you think the experiences at her uncle's house affected her more than the first eleven years of her life with loving nurses? Why or why not?
3. Given what Maud suffers at her uncle's house is she justified to do to Sue what she did? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Sue considers speaking to Mr. Lilly or to Maud to try to save Maud from the fate that awaits her. Her loyalty to Mrs. Sucksby, her desire to make her fortune, and her respect for Maud's innate goodness hold her back.
1. Why do you think Sue's respect for Maud's "innate goodness" would keep her from stopping the con?
2. This is a critical junction in Sue's life where she can stop what is happening to Maud. She doesn't partly due to her loyalty to Mrs. Sucksby. Do you think keeping loyal to Mrs. Sucksby is as important as not letting Ricard con Maud? Why or why not?
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