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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. When Papa would come from town in the evening, what would he bring?

2. How old was the first baby when Mama became pregnant with the twins?

3. How big was the house ConaLee left?

4. How many months after the Sharpshooter fled with Eliza and Dearbhla, did they find refuge high up in an Appalachian mountain ridge?

5. What is in the saddlebags of the man who tries to rape Eliza?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does ConaLee tell Mrs. Bowman when she wonders why the man who brought her and Miss Janet to the hospital did not register them?

2. What happened when men found ConaLee and her mother living on the ridge during the War?

3. Who is Mrs. Bowman?

4. Where did the Sharpshooter, Eliza and Dearbhla find refuge, and how long were they safe?

5. How is the Sharpshooter injured?

6. How did ConaLee and her mother live before Papa came?

7. Who answers the door when ConaLee knocks at the asylum?

8. How did Dearbhla come to raise the child who became Eliza's husband?

9. Who is Weed?

10. What was Dearbhla's son's childhood like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Night Watch, some characters are more thoroughly described than others. Who are some characters that are merely named in passing or have a minor role in the novel? What is the importance of these flat characters to the story line? In what way do these characters make the main characters more colorful or interesting? When there is conflict, what type of role do these flat characters play?

Essay Topic 2

The setting or settings are the places where a story happens. Where does Night Watch take place? How do characters feel about the various settings and why?

Essay Topic 3

Artistic license is the way that an author creates, art, music, or writing based upon her interpretation of life. How does Phillips use artistic license to create the realistic background of Night Watch?

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