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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 Margaret tell Mr. Hale about Dr. Donaldson's diagnosis of her mother?
2. Who is Mr. Bell?
3. What kind act has Mary done for Bessy that Margaret sees when she comes for a visit one day?
4. Why is Bessy annoyed with Margaret upon seeing her after they first met?
5. Why does Margaret not immediately tell her father about her mother's diagnosis?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Mrs. Hale object so much to living in Helstone?
2. What does Bessy claim is the cause for her deteriorating look of health?
3. What causes the striking workers to head to the Thornton household to protest?
4. Where does Frederick live when the reader first learns about him?
5. What first surprises Mr. Thornton about Margaret?
6. Whom does Mrs. Thornton accuse Mr. Thornton of needing to protect him?
7. What difference between the northern and southern shopkeepers does Margaret notice in Heston?
8. What makes Margaret go out in search of household help in Milton when she first arrives?
9. Why is Dixon in a panic when Mr. Hale and Margaret return from the Thorntons' big dinner party?
10. Why does Margaret run upstairs to cry after she tells her mother they will be moving to Milton?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze the scene of Henry Lennox' first romantic confession to Margaret and what happens afterward. What does Gaskell do to create the tone? What do the different characters' reactions immediately after tell us about their personalities? How does what happens afterward foreshadow what happens later in the text, if at all?
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast Margaret and her mother. Make sure to use direct quotations from the text.
Essay Topic 3
What is the underlying source of tension between Mrs. Thornton and her son? Use at least 3 examples from the text, including direct citations, to support your argument.
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