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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. Who comes to stay at the mansion in "The Beckoning Hands"?

2. How many months do the Mattamuskeet's land burn?

3. What does the author presume about the reader's and the lights in "The Mysterious Maco Lights"?

4. What do people begin to see close to the train station after Joe's death?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the yellow-orange flower's significance.

2. Who is Donald McDonald?

3. What happens to the girl in "The Core Point Ghosts"?

4. What does Alan dream about?

5. Describe how the man who rents the mansion finds Caroline.

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

7. What is the significance of Whedbee's close attention to the lights in "The Mysterious Maco Lights"?

8. What happens to Joe Baldwin?

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

10. What did Joe and Josephine Bell like to spend their time doing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how Whedbee's stories are presented as factual information rather than legend or myth? How does this method help the reader relate differently to the stories overall?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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