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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 "pretend game" do Jean Louise, Dill, and Jem decide to play in the flashback in Part 2, Chapter 5?

2. What does Henry tell Jean Louise he might do in Part 2, Chapter 5?

3. Who strips naked in the pretend game in Part 2, Chapter 5?

4. With whom did Dill spend his summers growing up?

5. How tall is Jean Louise Finch?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Jean Louise introduced in Part 1, Chapter 1? Where does she live and where is she traveling?

2. Who is Alexandra? What characteristics define Alexandra in Go Set a Watchman?

3. What is significant about Henry pointing out how Jean Louise drinks her coffee in Part 2, Chapter 4?

4. How does the theme of tradition emerge in Part 3, Chapter 6?

5. What is revealed of Atticus’s character in the flashback in Part 2, Chapter 5?

6. What indication does Jean Louise give that she will in fact marry Henry in Part 2, Chapter 5?

7. What is remarked about Jean Louise’s perceptions in the end of Part 3, Chapter 10?

8. What rumor has emerged regarding Jean Louise in Part 3, Chapter 6? How do Atticus and Alexandra respond?

9. What can be discerned of Jean Louise’s character based on her remarks about Edgar to Alexandra in Part 1, Chapter 2?

10. How does Jean Louise perceive her future with Henry in Part 1, Chapter 1?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the differences between the setting of Maycomb, Alabama, and the setting of New York City. Does the reader ever experience New York through the characters in Go Set a Watchman? How large is Maycomb? Upon what Alabama town was Maycomb most likely based?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the character of Dill in Go Set a Watchman and in To Kill a Mockingbird. What is revealed about Dill through Jean Louise in Go Set a Watchman? Why do you think the character of Dill is more focused upon in Harper Lee’s later draft (To Kill a Mockingbird)?

Essay Topic 3

What earlier trial of Atticus Finch’s is referred to in Go Set a Watchman? How is this trial displayed in To Kill a Mockingbird? In what ways does the trial connect the two novels?

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