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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 Mr. Hale tell Margaret about her mother's funeral arrangements?

2. Why does Mr. Lennox take Margaret to the seaside?

3. To whom does Margaret finally confess whom she was at the trains station with?

4. What family does Frederick have in Spain.

5. Whom does Mr. Bell arrange for Margaret to stay with after her father passes away?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Dixon in a panic when she comes to visit Margaret after Mrs. Hale's death?

2. Why does Mr. Hale not want to follow Frederick to Spain?

3. Why does Margaret stop giving advice through letters to Mr. Bell?

4. Why does Nicholas take it upon himself to look after Boucher's children?

5. How does Margaret respond to her father's death?

6. Why does Margaret initially refuse to give Mr. Thornton any credit for helping her and her brother with the police investigation?

7. How does Margaret respond to Mr. Bell's surprise to take her to Helstone?

8. What does Mrs. Thornton think of the possibility of Mr. Thornton's marrying Margaret?

9. What does the dying Mrs. Hale ask Mrs. Thornton to do?

10. Why is Mr. Thornton fearful of Nicholas after he refuses to give him work?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What message is Glaskell trying to convey to the reader about socioeconomic class issues in England during this time? Use 3 examples from the text to support your thesis.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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