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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 does Retha get for Greta?

2. What word describes the woman in the surrey?

3. What surprises Greta about Retha's mother?

4. What month is it before the fog returns?

5. How full are the girls' pails at noon?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Earl Frosst?

2. How does Laura describe Greta's fascination with the fog?

3. Why did Ann run away?

4. What does the first house that Greta sees in the fog become to her?

5. What are some of the reasons that the people of Little Valley dislike the fog?

6. Why does Retha's father tell Greta she must be careful when she is in Blue Cove?

7. How does Greta's mother keep her from wandering into the fog?

8. What does Greta know about Ann?

9. What circumstances cause Greta to first see something in the fog?

10. What are Retha and Greta doing when they see Ann?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Although Greta was able to tell the people of Blue Cove that Ann's skeleton was found by the bottomless lake, the men of Blue Cove are still not able to find Ann when they go out looking for her. Why do you believe Ann was never found? What might have happened if she were found?

Essay Topic 2

What is Greta's role in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

How do you believe that the people of Blue Cove knew that Greta was from a different time? Why didn't they just think she was a child who had wandered away from another village?

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