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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 happens to Maud's diamond brooch?

2. Where do Charles and Sue go after Sue escapes from the asylum?

3. What does Maud think is possible after the money is claimed?

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

5. How does Richard contrive to be able to see and talk to Maud every day?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Richard suggest to Mr. Lilly that Richard teach Maud to paint?

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

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

6. Why is it ironic that Maud eats and drinks at Mrs. Sucksby's house?

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

8. What are the key developments in this chapter?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Maud tries to silence Richard. Is her motive to protect Mrs. Sucksby? Is it to save Sue from the pain of knowing the true scheme and Mrs. Sucksby's indifference to her? Is it to ensure a share of Marianne Lilly's fortune that she could lose to Sue?

1. Why do you think Maud wants to silence Ricard? Use examples from the book to support your answer.

2. If you were Maud in this situation with Richard beginning to talk, what would you do?

3. Do you think Richard deserved to die due to his behavior and actions? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

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.

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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