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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 Mrs. Kasinski fall when the women are playing outside?

2. Where does Weed like to hide and listen to the women in the kitchen?

3. After the carriage ride, where does O'Shea go after leaving Dr. Story's office?

4. What color are Dr. Story's eyes?

5. In December 1874, the day after the carriage ride, when does Miss Janet ask to meet with Dr. Story?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Papa escape from the asylum?

2. How does Dr. Story describe his sessions with Miss Janet?

3. What commotion do ConaLee and her mother notice when they go inside after being on the back lawn on their second day at the asylum?

4. What is the regimen at the asylum?

5. What does Dearbhla notice as she watches Papa from the footpath from her cabin in March 1874?

6. What does Dearbhla remember about when Papa came?

7. How is ConaLee's mother doing by December 1874?

8. How does O'Shea die?

9. When ConaLee goes for the first walk with her mother, Nurse Blevins, and Mrs. Kasinski, what is a man doing who they see?

10. What happens to the storekeeper's wife, and how does the storekeeper buy Dearbhla's silence?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Eliza has not been a mother to ConaLee ever since Papa came. Even as Eliza heals, she does not resume her motherly role. How would you describe the relationship between ConaLee and her mother and why and how it changes?

Essay Topic 2

A villain in literature is usually an evil character that actively harms the main character or others. An antagonist is a character that may not be wicked, but who opposes the main character in a story. Is Papa a villain or an antagonist? Might he be both?

Essay Topic 3

When an author uses dramatic irony, readers have information that characters do not. How does Phillips use dramatic irony in Night Watch? How does dramatic irony increase tension in the novel?

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