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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 title of the chapter when Cathy and Chris' plan to escape is halted when Cory gets ill?
2. What do Chris and Cathy do at the end of Chapter 19?
3. What do Chris and Cathy overhear someone saying the Mother's relationship with her date is, during the Christmas party?
4. What is the title of Chapter 16 of the book?
5. What is Cathy worried will happen after looking at a book in her mother's room?
Short Essay Questions
1. What do Chris and Cathy witness at the Christmas party while hiding in a cupboard?
2. What does Chris overhear his mother and Bart talking about while hiding in their room in Chapter 19?
3. How is Bartholomew Winslow first described in the book?
4. What happens when Cathy falls and cuts herself with scissors?
5. What happens when grandmother finds Chris in front of a window in Chapter 15?
6. What happens when the Mother discovers Chris out of the room in Chapter 11?
7. What happens when Cathy tries to stop the grandmother from beating Chris in Chapter 15?
8. How do Chris and Cathy go to a lake in Chapter 14?
9. What does Chris do when the grandmother accuses him and Cathy of incest in Chapter 13?
10. How is the trophy room in Foxworth Hall described in the book?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Discuss the portrayal of jealousy in the book. What is telling about Chris' nature based on his jealous actions regarding Cathy in the book?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the portrayal of puberty in the book. How was Chris and Cathy's experience with puberty flawed due to their being locked in the attic together?
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