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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. Where does Katie give birth?
2. Who does Ellie witness Katie having a conversation with, without any emotion, after the party has ended?
3. What does Ellie do when she returns home from walking around the Fisher property in the evening?
4. What did Lizzie see on Katie that made her suspicious?
5. What does Ellie make clear to Coop about their relationship?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Lizzie learn in her discussion with Sarah in Chapter 7?
2. How does the bishop provide Ellie with electricity for her laptop?
3. In Chapter 4, why did Ellie call a psychiatrist friend in the middle of the night?
4. In Chapter 6, why does Katie agree to confess her sins at the next church meeting as the bishop and church leaders have asked her to do?
5. In Chapters 2-3, who was excited that Ellie had successfully gotten an acquittal for a man who sexually abused several girls, and what did this person do for Ellie?
6. In Chapter 5, when Katie recalls moments of her past, she recalled meeting someone at Jacob's graduation. Who was it?
7. In Chapter 7, what did Katie recall when Samuel confessed to Katie that he wished the baby was his as well?
8. In Chapters 2-3, the author mentioned that when Katie went to visit Jacob six years ago in State College, Jacob give her a gift. What was this gift?
9. What were two reasons Ellie had trouble adjusting to the Amish way of life the first night?
10. Why does Leda believe that it is necessary for Sarah to arrange a lawyer for Katie?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Women play an important role in Plain Truth. Discuss one English woman and one Amish woman and their impact on the story. When do they appear in the book? Why? Who are their relationships with? Why? What is their role in the story? Is it a dominating role, or is it a supportive role? How do they interact with the other characters? What does this tell us about them?
Essay Topic 2
There are two alternate theories of how the baby died. What are they? Which seems more plausible? Why? If the mother of the baby had been someone other than Katie, would that make a difference? Does the way that the author builds Katie's character have an impact on the reader believing one theory of death over another?
Essay Topic 3
What role did Sarah play in the book? What decisions did she make and why? What influenced her decisions? Family? Amish beliefs?
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