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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 introduce Sue and Maud to the doctors?
2. Who does Maud decide to turn to for help?
3. Where do Charles and Sue go after Sue escapes from the asylum?
4. What happens to Richard?
5. Why was Mrs. Sucksby Marianne Lilly's midwife?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the murder of Richard.
2. What does Maud do with the razor she stole from her uncle?
3. What does Sue learn when she observes Lant house from across the street and how does she react to this information?
4. How does Sue begin her return to sanity and eventual escape?
5. What happens when Maud and Richard walk into the house on Lant Street?
6. How does Richard get Agnes out of the house?
7. Why does Richard suggest to Mr. Lilly that Richard teach Maud to paint?
8. What story about Maud does Richard and Mrs. Sucksby reveal to Maud?
9. What does Sue say to Maud the first night she is in the bed with Maud and what is Maud's reaction?
10. Give a brief description of what Mr. Lilly has to say in the letter to Richard and how Maud feels about the letter.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The forces surrounding Maud have now hardened her resolve to carry through the plan. Seeing these same events through Maud's eyes deepens the question, what is truth?
1. Do you think truth is always easy to know? Why or why not?
2. Why do you think Sue is blinded to the truth about Maud? Use examples from the book to support your answer.
3. Richard appears to get what he wants by obscuring, bending or hiding the truth. Do you think what Richard does is difficult? 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
Sue feels sorry for Maud, and the future that awaits her in the madhouse. Yet Sue remains resolute in her plan to assist Gentleman in his plot to destroy her.
1. Why do you think Sue is still planning to destroy Maud even though she feels sorry for her?
2. Do you think that destroying Maud will make Sue a totally bad person? Why or why not?
3. Do you think if you were poor you could do what Sue plans to do? Why or why not?
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