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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 children begin to see the following New Year's in the window at the mansion?

2. What do Caroline and her mother hold in the mansion year's after the pirate's death?

3. What does the girl confess to her parents in "The Core Point Ghosts"?

4. How does Donald finally reach America after his ship wrecks?

5. Who is Ann?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Donald McDonald?

2. What does the elderly lady do that saves the Mattamuskeet tribe?

3. Why do people think the light they see is Joe?

4. Why does a man rent the mansion from "The Beckoning Hands"?

5. What do people begin to see at New Year's in "The Beckoning Hands"?

6. What happens to Alan and his grandparents at the end of "The Fountain of Mercy"?

7. How does the Maco Train Station respond to Joe's death?

8. Why does the Queen of Sounds explode?

9. Describe Frenchy.

10. Why did Donald travel to America?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss and describe the symbolism of Donald McDonald's drum which is later owned by the Payne family in "Rodanthe's Drum of Old Christmas".

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast modern society's response to pregnancy out of wedlock to the way society responded to the girl's from "The Core Point Ghosts". Do you think her guilt was equal to her crime?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the significance of the title of "The Jobellflower" to the content of its story.

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