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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 Mrs. Stanton intend to get to Halifax?

2. From what did Captain Cornwall die?

3. What is Mrs. Morrill working on?

4. Where does Greta plan to take the kitten?

5. Where is the church picnic held?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Retha's mother respond when Retha asks about Greta?

2. How does Mrs. Stanton get in to see the duke?

3. Why does Mrs. Morrill wish Greta "safe passage"?

4. How do the men on the Emmeretta require the captain's body to be taken back to Blue Cove?

5. How does Christine describe her feelings about her twelfth birthday to Greta?

6. What seems to be the significance of Greta turning twelve?

7. What does Mrs. Stanton say about Mrs. Trask from when she was in school?

8. Why do the names Ansel Cornwall and Leah Cornwall sound familiar to Greta?

9. How has Leah Cornwall come to have control of her husband's ship?

10. For whom does Retha's mother believe Anthony is looking?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

What is Greta's father's role in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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