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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 kind of work has Mr. Hale secured for himself in Milton?

2. How does the narrator describe Mrs. Thornton's presence when going to dinner at the Hales'?

3. Who is Dixon?

4. Why does Margaret not immediately tell her father about her mother's diagnosis?

5. When the novel opens, where does the Hale family live?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bessy claim is the cause for her deteriorating look of health?

2. What does Mrs. Thornton warn her son about Margaret?

3. According to Bessy, what happens to people who work in the cotton factory that makes them sick?

4. What about Mr. Thornton's life story does Margaret like?

5. How does Margaret prove to Bessy that she indeed knows suffering?

6. How does Mrs. Thornton feel about living so close to the mill?

7. Why does Mr. Hale ask Margaret to tell Mrs. Hale about their move to Milton?

8. What was Frederick on trial for?

9. What difference between the northern and southern shopkeepers does Margaret notice in Heston?

10. What happens to Mrs. Hale and Dixon once they arrive in Milton?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the role that the character of Frederick plays in the story of "North and South" and at least 3 unique functions that this character serves within the text.

Essay Topic 2

Identify at least 3 instances where Margaret inserts herself into the world of men in the novel, and discuss how her doing so goes against the gender norms of the time.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the social norms in the North and the social norms in the South, according to what is written in the novel. Make sure to use specific quotations from the text to support your arguments.

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