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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 Cathy feel about the subject the Mother comes to talk to her about in Chapter 12?

2. What kind of activities does Cathy find people doing in a book she finds in her mother's room?

3. What does Cathy cut herself with in Chapter 13?

4. Who has a dream about Cory being taken to heaven?

5. Who stands near a window and is reprimanded by the grandmother in Chapter 15?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Cathy notice about the gifts their mother brings them in Chapter 17?

2. How do Chris and Cathy come to make love for the first time?

3. How do the grandmother and mother react when Cory becomes ill in Chapter 20?

4. What does Chris learn about his mother from John Amos at the end of Chapter 20?

5. How do the children react after learning that Cory died?

6. What does Cathy do one night when she finds her stepfather asleep in a chair?

7. What kind of book does Cathy find in her mother's room in Chapter 18?

8. How do Chris and Cathy go to a lake in Chapter 14?

9. How does Chris describe their mother's bedroom to Cathy?

10. What happens when Cathy falls and cuts herself with scissors?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the mother's surroundings versus the children's in Foxworth Hall. What can we learn about the motivations of the mother, based on her immaculate room and the children's old dusty attic?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the concept of imprisonment that is presented in the book. Why do you believe it took the children so long to accept that their imprisonment would be permanent?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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