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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 Mr. Ben call Libertie?

2. Why did Mama become a doctor?

3. Why does the LIS stop talking to Mama?

4. What does the Ladies' Intelligence Society buy after the war?

5. Who does Mama start seeing at the hospital after it is open for a year?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do people in town stop talking to Mama?

2. Why does Mama get sent dry seahorses?

3. Why is Libertie disliked by white women at the hospital?

4. Where does Libertie get into college?

5. Whose grave does Libertie tend to?

6. What is Mama's profession?

7. Who is Mr. Ben?

8. Who is Elizabeth?

9. How does Mama kick Libertie out of the house?

10. What secret does Mama make Libertie keep?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay exploring the role of grief in the book. Who in the novel experiences grief, and why? What events trigger their grief, and how do they manage it? Use examples from the text as support.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you explore Mama's approach to her work in medicine. What kind of doctor is she, and what does she manage or hope to teach Libertie about the profession?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you explore the theme of freedom in the novel. What are the various ideas about freedom in the novel, and to whom do these ideas belong? In particular, what does Libertie consider freedom, and in what ways does she seek to find it?

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