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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 Gwen smell from inside the house?

2. What is March working on in Chapter 17 when Gwen returns to the house?

3. Where did Susie go to college?

4. In Chapter 20, who says "so who are you now if you're not him"?

5. What does Gwen find that she wants to give to Hank?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the front of Alan's house as Gwen approaches it for the first time.

2. What does Hollis want to do in old Mr. Cooper's parlor?

3. What scene does March witness in Chapter 21 that she is frozen by?

4. What did Judith show March about catching a fox?

5. Why is Richard so popular with his students?

6. Describe what happened the first time Ken saw Belinda in the road.

7. Who has been unsuccessfully trying to reach March at Guardian Farms by phone and why?

8. Why does Hollis refuse to look at March when returns home on Thanksgiving night?

9. How does Gwen feel after she makes a deal with Hollis to gain ownership of Tarot?

10. What has Gwen been doing most of her afternoons after school in December?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the symbolism of the lemon tree in California, both when March talks to Hollis while near it and when Richard talks to March while near it.

Essay Topic 2

The reader meets Susanna Justice in Chapter 4. As adults, both Susie and March are friends, yet from March's viewpoint, Susie has always been cryptic. This calls attention to her response of, "she was something, all right" when March talks about how great Judith Dale was. What might Susie have meant by her statement?

Essay Topic 3

Gwen insists on making her way through the swamp in Chapter 13 not for Hank's benefit, but for her own. Discuss Gwen's reasons for persisting through the marshes to stand on Alan's porch. What is she proving to herself?

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