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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 is the name of Riley's sister who is in the protagonist's class in school?

2. What is the Reverend's last name?

3. What is the name of the narrator's father?

4. What is the name of the man who writes Catherine to ask her to marry him?

5. What is the Judge's last name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the story behind Riley's parents?

2. How does the narrator's father feel about Verena and Dolly? How does the narrator come to live with them?

3. Who packs the narrator's belongings in Chapter 1? How does he end up staying at the Talbo house indefinitely?

4. What happens at the end of Chapter 2?

5. What exposition is revealed about the Judge's education and marriage?

6. Why is the narrator envious of Riley? What responsibilities does Riley have?

7. What positions do the sisters whom the narrator lives with have in the town/home? Whom does the narrator gravitate toward of the two?

8. How does Dolly react to the Sheriff's demands? What does the Judge do?

9. How does the Judge counsel Riley in Chapter 3?

10. What does the tree house gang do while the buzz is going on in the town in Chapter 2?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the theme of Alienation in The Grass Harp. Which characters manifest this theme? Why and how? How does the theme affect the action and events in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the characters of Dolly and Verena. How are they similar? How are they different? How do the actions of these characters drive the action of the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the theme of Love in the novel. What different forms of love are represented and by whom? How does the search for love drive the characters and their actions?

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