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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 Rhett notice that gives Scarlett's lies away?

2. Who does Scarlett shun in Atlanta?

3. What does Rhett propose to Scarlett?

4. What does Scarlett buy?

5. What does Scarlett realize when she talks to Ashley?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Scarlett and Rhett argue in Chapter 43?

2. What does Rhett do when Scarlett tells him she is pregnant? What happens to Scarlett that fulfills Rhett's words?

3. What change does Scarlett see in Rhett after she miscarries? How does she feel about this?

4. Where does Scarlett find Rhett in Chapter 34? What does he tell her?

5. What does Scarlett decide to buy in Chapter 36? How does she get the money for this? What are the conditions?

6. How does Ashley escape from the Yankees who are after him for his participation in the shantytown raid?

7. What is Scarlett determined to do before she has Frank's baby in June? Why?

8. What does Rhett plot with Melanie about in Chapter 57?

9. What does Ashley tell Scarlett in Chapter 41? How does Melanie help Scarlett get what she wants?

10. What advice does Old Mrs. Fontaine give Scarlett in Chapter 40?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Do you think Scarlett was a good mother? Compare her actions and feelings with those of Scarlett's mother, Ellen.

Essay Topic 2

Why do you think Scarlett loved Ashley? Do you think that it was real love or Scarlett's imagination? How did her love for Ashley differ from her love for Rhett?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Ashley Wilkes with Rhett Butler. How does each of these men represent the South?

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