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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 make it seem that he and Maud are making love?

2. Who is the daughter of Marianne Lilly?

3. How does Richard introduce Sue and Maud to the doctors?

4. What is wrong with Nurse Bacon?

5. Who does Maud decide to turn to for help?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What story about Maud does Richard and Mrs. Sucksby reveal to Maud?

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

6. Describe Maud and Sue's first interaction.

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

8. Describe Maud and Richard's wedding night.

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

10. Describe the murder of Richard.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sue understood, from her first time in the theater, that there are bad people and good people and people that could go either way.

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

2. Describe a person you think is "bad." Use examples from the book to support your answer.

3. Describe a person you think is "good." Use examples from the book to support your answer.

4. Describe a person you think might be good or bad. Use examples from the book to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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