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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 do the branches of the tree form in "Indian Gallows"?

2. Who is Elnora engaged to?

3. Who is honored by the Continental Congress?

4. Who is Elnora?

5. What surprises Tim about the traveler on the canoe?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the one widespread story about witchcraft in North Carolina?

2. What did Saint George do, according to "The Legend of Old Buck"?

3. Describe Tim's new wife.

4. Who is Don Carlos?

5. What is the literal white cloud in "White Cloud"?

6. When can those see the Gray Man of Hatteras?

7. What does Don Carlos want to do in America?

8. What is the importance of Susannah Evans in "The Affair at Brownrigg Mill"?

9. Who is Robert Austin?

10. What happens to those in the town that do not like Tim's new wife?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss and explain how in the story "The Mysterious Maco Lights" the Maco Lights become so incorporated with the Maco locals that they begin treating Joe's bobbling light as scientific explanation to the light phenomenon at Maco Station.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Old Christmas to today's, modern Christmas by analyzing "The Legend of Old Buck" to see how and why Old Christmas evolved into what we know Christmas to be now.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss and explain the significance of the motif of peril on water and what Whedbee is suggesting with this repeated image and conflict for the character's.

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