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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 people think the mysterious lights of Maco are?

2. In "The Beckoning Hands" what does the person dream of their first night in the mansion?

3. What does Caroline's mother die from?

4. Who built the mansion in "The Beckoning Hands"?

5. What eventually becomes the name of the flower Joe planted for Josephine?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Joe Baldwin?

2. Who is Donald McDonald?

3. Who is the Great Spirit?

4. Why was Caroline's mother worried on Caroline's wedding day?

5. Why was Caroline's dad cursed in "The Beckoning Hands"

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

7. What happens to the girl's fiance in "The Core Point Ghosts"?

8. How does the girl respond to her baby's birth in "The Core Point Ghosts"?

9. What is at conflict in "The Legend of Mattamuskeet Lake"?

10. Why did Donald travel to America?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the role guilt plays on characters in both "The Beckoning Hands" and "The Core Point Ghosts".

Essay Topic 2

Discuss and explain the significance of the role unrequited love plays in "The Indian Gallows Tree" and what Whedbee is suggesting about romance by this relationship.

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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