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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 Maud decide to do about her situation?

2. To whom does Marianne Lilly leave her fortune?

3. What happens to Richard?

4. What is the remedy for Sue's screaming in the asylum?

5. Why was Mrs. Sucksby Marianne Lilly's midwife?

Short Essay Questions

1. What changes Maud during the night after the outing and what does Maud do about it?

2. What does Maud learn when she demands to know where she is when arriving at Mrs. Sucksby's house?

3. Describe the murder of Richard.

4. How does Maud react to being at the house on Lant Street and how does Richard react to Maud's accusations?

5. When Richard returns from London, what must Maud commit herself to doing in the time left before her escape?

6. What does Sue learn when she observes Lant house from across the street and how does she react to this information?

7. Describe Maud and Richard's wedding night.

8. What does Maud give to Sue and what does that foreshadow?

9. Briefly describe Sue's experience in the insane asylum.

10. What happens when Richard, Maud and Sue are out on the grounds and Richard observes Maud watching Sue sleep?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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