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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 reminds Mr. Thornton of Margaret during his financial troubles?

2. Who comes to Margaret's house to inquire about her health?

3. What does Margaret do after the police inspector comes to her house?

4. What role does Margaret assume for the Boucher children?

5. Who ultimately tells Mrs. Boucher that her husband has died?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Bessy make Mary promise to her as she was dying?

2. Why is Mr. Hale not happy when his son returns home?

3. Why does Frederick decide to stay in Spain?

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

5. Who organizes and gets rid of Mr. Hale's belongings?

6. Why is Margaret so concerned when she hears that Mr. Thornton thinks she was at the train station with Mr. Lennox?

7. Why does Mrs. Thornton confront Margaret about being in the train station with someone she suspects is her lover?

8. Why is Mr. Lennox able to take Margaret on a vacation to the seaside?

9. After Bessy dies, why does Margaret bring a drunk Nicholas back to her house?

10. What happens to Margaret, emotionally, while she is in Helstone after her father has passed away?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the character of Margaret at the beginning of the novel with the character of Margaret at the end of the novel. What is different? What is the same? How has she changed and grown? What were the causes of that growth?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Compare and contrast Margaret and her mother. Make sure to use direct quotations from the text.

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