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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. How does Richard get rid of Maud?

2. Where is Sue sent because of her struggles against the orderlies?

3. What card falls out when Sue is telling Maud her fortune?

4. What does Maud steal from her uncle's bedroom while he is asleep?

5. Who devised the entire scheme about the inheritance?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sue say to Maud the first night she is in the bed with Maud and what is Maud's reaction?

2. How does Sue begin her return to sanity and eventual escape?

3. What does Maud do with the razor she stole from her uncle?

4. How is Sue's experience at the insane asylum similar to that of Maud at her uncle's house?

5. Describe the murder of Richard.

6. Give a brief description of what Mr. Lilly has to say in the letter to Richard and how Maud feels about the letter.

7. Describe Maud and Richard's wedding night.

8. What happens when Maud and Richard walk into the house on Lant Street?

9. How does Sue feel about Maud, who was partially responsible for Sue being in the asylum?

10. How does Richard get Agnes out of the house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 6, the juxtaposition of appearance and truth and of knowledge and ignorance become fuller and more important.

1. What do you think is meant by this statement? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Why do you think the appearance of a situation does not always reflect the truth of a situation? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. When someone is ignorant of the truth of a situation, do you think she/he should make any decisions about that situation? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Sue is now a prisoner of a dark and dismal place. As Maud's spirit was broken at Briar by her uncle and Mrs. Stiles, the housekeeper, so the doctor plans to break Sue's spirit, and her delusion, in the madhouse.

1. What do you think is meant by this statement? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. It seems that Maud and Sue has switched places, the asylum metaphorically similar to Maud's uncle's house and Mrs. Sucksby's house where Sue thought she had a happy childhood. Do you think this switch will result in Sue becoming more like Maud and vice versus? Why or why not?

3. Do you think realistically, one would be able to maintain love for a person who did to Sue what Maud did? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

The reader begins to see the gloved hands as symbolic of the cocoon of isolation and control in which Maud has been wrapped by her uncle. They become symbolic of her innocence.

1. What do you think is meant by this statement? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. Do you think anyone in modern America could be conned the way Maud is being conned? Why or why not?

3. How much blame for what is happening, and will happen to Maud, do you think should be assigned to her uncle? Explain your answer.

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