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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Uncle Peter bring with him to Tara?
(a) Food
(b) Aunt Pittypat
(c) A letter from Ashley
(d) Cotton seeds

2. What is Scarlett told as she helps Melanie have her baby?
(a) The baby is dead
(b) The Yankees are coming
(c) Tara has been burned
(d) Melanie is dying

3. What does Melanie announce after Ashley's visit?
(a) She's going to live in New Orleans
(b) She knows Scarlett kissed Ashley
(c) She is leaving him for Rhett
(d) She's pregnant

4. Why did Gerald flee to the United States from Ireland?
(a) Religious persecution
(b) The Potato Famine
(c) To marry Ellen
(d) He killed a man

5. What can the citizens of Atlanta hear when the Union troops are twenty miles away?
(a) Union drums
(b) Warning signals
(c) Sounds of battle
(d) Confederate horses

Short Answer Questions

1. Gerald tells Scarlett that what is the only thing that matters?

2. What does Ashley fear?

3. What adjective best describes the birth of Melanie's baby?

4. Who tries to donate money to the hospital?

5. Who offers to buy Tara?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do Scarlett and her family go in Chapter 5? What does Scarlett hope to do there?

2. How does Rhett feel about the war? Why does he run the blockade?

3. What does Scarlett decide she must do in order to save Tara in Chapter 32? How does she prepare for this?

4. Chapter 15 begins to show the changes in Ashley. How has the war changed him?

5. How do the impending Yankee invasion and having to care for Melanie mature Scarlett? In what ways is she beginning to change from the girl that she was?

6. What does Scarlett find in Atlanta when she and Mammy return to find Rhett?

7. How is the war affecting Atlanta in 1864? What personal challenge does it give to Scarlett, Melanie, and those around them?

8. Why does Gerald arrive in Atlanta to take Scarlett back home in Chapter 10? How is Scarlett able to remain in Atlanta?

9. Who comes to stay at Tara while the family waits for Ashley to return after the war? How does he help out the family?

10. Why is Scarlett jealous of the young women in Atlanta? Why do you think she feels this way?

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