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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 is the father's middle name?

2. What is the relationship between Cathy and Chris?

3. Who reads to the twins until they fall asleep at night?

4. What is the title of Chapter 8?

5. Which of her relatives does the children's mother say is very wealthy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the twins come down with a cold in Chapter 9?

2. How does the Mother tell the children how she and Christopher acted after they first begin dating?

3. What does Cathy wish about her grandfather at the end of Chapter 3?

4. What do Chris and Cathy realize about their bodies in Chapter 8?

5. How does the Dollanganger children's father die in the book?

6. What do the children do with the art supplies their mother brings them in Chapter 8?

7. How is the Dollanganger family accepted at Foxworth Hall when they first arrive there?

8. How is the schoolroom the children find in the attic described?

9. Describe the condition of the Mother at the beginning of Chapter 5.

10. How does the grandmother show a small amount of compassion towards the children in Chapter 8?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Loyalty is one topic the author examines in the book through the children's relationship with their mother. Part 1.) What is telling of Chris' nature based on his loyalty towards his mother after they are imprisoned? Part 2.) Why doesn't Cathy show the same loyalty to her mother as Chris does? Part 3.) What might the author be saying about the nature of loyalty based on the portrayal of the children's loyalty breaking in the book?

Essay Topic 2

Wealth is an important theme throughout much of the book and controls how many of the characters act. Part 1.) What role does money play in the mother's life and why does she appear to need it so badly? Part 2.) How does the grandmother use her wealth as a way of controlling the Mother and the children? Part 3.) Based on the impact wealth plays in the lives of the book's characters, what conclusion might the author want the reader to come to regarding the nature of wealth?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the dual nature of the grandmother that is portrayed in the book. What do you think is the grandmother's true feelings regarding the children, based on her mixture of punishment and occasional compassion in the book?

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