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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 seems artificial and harsh to Katherine at the homecoming party?

2. How does Katherine react to the decorations and crowds at the homecoming party?

3. What does the male Beauclaire twin pretend to be in Chapter 28?

4. What is the name of the male Beauclaire twin?

5. What does Katherine's mother forbid Katherine to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Before she dies, what does Constance ask Katherine to do?

2. What memory does Katherine recall after Timmy Beauclaire's death?

3. What does Katherine do when she becomes thirsty while out for a walk in Chapter 26?

4. Where do Katherine and Mike take the children the day after adding Kate to their family?

5. In Chapter 21, what does Oh-Be-Joyful say has caused difficulties in her relationship with Jonathan?

6. Why does Mike decide to retrieve the final wolf trap he set outside the house in Chapter 22?

7. Why does Mike arrest Jonathan at the end of Chapter 19?

8. Why is Anne forbidden from marrying Jonathan by the Mother Superior at the Mission? According to the Mother Superior, what is a "klooch"?

9. What happens in August, 1914? How does this affect the Beauclaire family?

10. What does Constance Beauclaire tell Katherine about her journey to North America from France?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does the reader learn about Native Canadian culture? What does Katherine learn, and how does she react to the differences between her own culture and the Native Canadian culture?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the setting of the novel. In what way is the setting an important aspect of this story? How might Katherine's life have been different if she had not lived in Northern Canada during this time?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the motif of family in the novel "Mrs. Mike." Describe the families of Katherine, Constance, and others. Is family important to Katherine? What does Constance mean when she talks about having more than one family?

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