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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. How does Pickles get his name?

2. What does Tess insist upon when Willa returns after riding to the woods?

3. Who tells Willa and Lily that she is ashamed of them?

4. Who is happy to see the pie Willa brings from Bess?

5. What does Willa find after she comes across Pickles' rig?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Lily consider the trip to Mercy Ranch to be and how do her and Adam handle her revelations?

2. Whose funeral is happening in the beginning of the book, what kind of a person was he and how does his daughter feel about the people at the wake?

3. Who discovers Pickles' body, how does she feel about it, who else comes along, and what does he tell her?

4. What is the killer feeling after he kills Pickles and what does he decide at that point?

5. What does Tess insist Willa do when she returns from checking on the deer in the woods, and what interrupts that?

6. What does the killer do after the New Year's Eve party?

7. What does the will say about the ranch?

8. What do Willa and Ben find the day after the funeral, how do they find it, and what do they do about it?

9. Who is the second oldest daughter of the person in question #1, where did she come from and for what does she hope?

10. What does Willa teach her sisters in Chapter 15 and what does Tess do after that?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Montana Sky is considered a romance/mystery, a sub-genre of fiction. Discuss the following:

1. Define genre and then specifically romance/mystery.

2. What do you think is the difference between a romance novel and a romance/mystery?

3. Many in the world of academe do not see mystery as a serious genre, that its primary purpose is entertainment and not "worthy" of being studied by serious students of literature. Respond to that idea.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following:

1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in Montana Sky.

2. Trace and analyze one major theme of Montana Sky. How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of Montana Sky. How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss one of the following:

1. Trace and analyze one major theme of Montana Sky. Consider the following: How does one character's actions portray the theme you are analyzing? How does the setting contribute to that theme? Is the theme one that you would call a "universal theme"? If so, what other book or novel that you have read also includes this theme. If not, why don't you think it is a "universal" theme?

2. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of Montana Sky. How does one character's actions portray the themes you are analyzing? How does the setting contribute to those themes? Is each theme one that you would call a "universal theme"? If so, what other book or novel that you have read also includes this theme? If not, why don't you think it is a "universal" theme?

3. What benefit is there in discussing and analyzing the themes of a work of fiction? Do you think most authors consciously develop themes in their works? Why or why not? Can there be accidental themes? What do you think is one possible "accidental" theme in Montana Sky? Which theme in Montana Sky speaks to you the most in your life? Why?

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