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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 Jem ask his mother for before he returns to Liverpool?

2. Who is the lawyer that Job hires?

3. Instead of money, what does Mary offer two sailors as pay?

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the Carson sisters?

5. Where are the sons of the old boatman?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mary want the doctor to declare Jane too sick to travel?

2. How is Harry Carson murdered and where is the murder weapon found?

3. How does Will Wilson say he will return to the shore?

4. Who does Jane blame for Jem's arrest?

5. How do the Sturgis' try to revive Mary when she faints at their house?

6. How has Alice Wilson's stroke affected her, and who cares for her?

7. What does Jem ask of Job in the letter he writes him?

8. What alibi is found for Jem?

9. How does Mary realize that her father is the true murderer?

10. What does Mary stay up all night doing at the Sturgis' house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the female characters of the novel. How are they portrayed in the novel? Do you believe that having a female author affected the portrayal of the characters?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the setting of the novel. How does the setting affect the narrative? How would the story have been different if it were set in a different time? Place?

Essay Topic 3

Gaskell uses language to make the characters more vivid and realistic. Discuss how Gaskell uses dialect and regional works to bring the Lancashire world to life.

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