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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 the character whom Verena had been attached to and heartbroken by?

2. What is the name of the sheriff of the town?

3. What is Catherine's last name?

4. What is the Judge's last name?

5. Who says, "I'm no man with a dozen faces; the notion"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Judge make of Dolly in Chapter 3?

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

3. Why do Catherine and Dolly go into the woods once a week?

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

5. What causes Verena's interest in the dropsy cure?

6. What does Dolly declare about love in Chapter 3?

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. What is Riley's confession in Chapter 3?

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

10. What happens at the end of Chapter 2?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the representation of organized religion in the novel. How are Sister Ida and Minister Buster used as symbols to reflect a viewpoint on religion? What Biblical allusions are evident in the text?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of "Growing Up" in The Grass Harp. How is this theme embodied symbolically? How is it embodied literally? How does this theme affect the characters in the story?

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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