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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. Catesby writes a letter to his wife. Whom does he urge her to keep an eye on?
2. What do Jesse's men call Abraham Lincoln?
3. What does Catesby's daughter say her mother spends her time doing now that her father is dead?
4. What do the Union soldiers take from Marguerite and her servants as they are preparing to leave the city?
5. Which servant leaves Marguerite on the road after the incident with the Union soldiers?
Short Essay Questions
1. While traveling on their way home from a prayer meeting, what does young Seth Danzinger talk about with Alexander?
2. What do Marguerite's grown children tell the girl who has been interviewing her at the birthday party?
3. What happens to Jesse and the other black soldiers who are captured by the Confederates after a battle?
4. What does Sallie realize about her Cousin Molly's attitude in Part IV, Chapter 50?
5. What does the girl that is interviewing Marguerite tell her she is getting continual pressure to do in Part III, Chapter 39?
6. How do Jesse's men react after he reads them the Gettysburg Address?
7. What does Silas tell Marguerite in a letter in Part IV, Chapter 61?
8. After telling his wife, Leona, in a letter that he has become a Christian, what does Catesby urge his wife, Leona, to do?
9. What does Duncan tell Sallie about Midge when she comes to visit him in the hospital?
10. What happens at the Appomattox Courthouse that Duncan and Thomas Byrd are present at in Part IV, Chapter 68?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Throughout "Jacob's Ladder" there are families that grow, families that are torn apart, and families that stick together. Love is what binds these families together and the lack of love is often what tears them apart. Analyze the theme of family and love throughout the novel. How important is the theme of family in the novel? What examples from the book demonstrate how much Samuel's family means to him? What does family mean to Marguerite? Whom does she love?
Essay Topic 2
Description is the fiction-writing mode for creating a mental image of a story. Examine the use of description in "Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War". How does the author graphically describe life in Virginia during slavery and the Civil War? How are the characters described? How does the author use dialogue, imagery, and even sentence structure to help describe?
Essay Topic 3
Most of the characters in "Jacob's Ladder" have no idea what the war will do to their lives. Examine how the characters' first ideas of the war differ from the actual realities of the war. How do Duncan's fantasies really have nothing in common with the realities of war? How can someone's fantasy of something almost make the reality harder to bear? Is Alexander having a harder time dealing with his reality because of his preconceived notions of war?
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