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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. When does Rhett's popularity end?

2. What is Scarlett told as she helps Melanie have her baby?

3. Gerald tells Scarlett that she should marry to be what?

4. Who is distraught over the death of her son?

5. Why doesn't Gerald go to battle?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Melanie and Scarlett's relationship begin to change in Chapters 26 and 27? What events bind them together?

2. What happens when Scarlett talks to Ashley in Chapter 6? Who overhears their conversation?

3. What does Scarlett find when she arrives at Tara after the birth of Melanie's baby?

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

5. Why does Scarlett's family send her to Atlanta?

6. Why do you think Rhett joins the Confederate army even though he doesn't believe in the Cause?

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

8. Why did Melanie speak to Belle Watling in Chapter 13? Why is she reprimanded for this?

9. How does Scarlett become the head of Tara after her return with Melanie and the babies?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Rhett and Scarlett's marriage. What mistakes did each of them make in their relationship with each other?

Essay Topic 2

How is the South transformed by the Civil War, according to Mitchell? Do you think her portrayal of the Old and New South are accurate?

Essay Topic 3

How does Scarlett represent the South in the novel? How do the narratives of Scarlett and the South parallel each other through the novel? What message could the reader take from this similarity?

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