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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 does Ellie feel guilty about bringing into the barn?

2. What do the bishop and the church leaders want Katie to do at the next church meeting?

3. What were Katie, Ellie, and Sarah canning?

4. In one memory Katie has during the first Sunday, why do Jacob and his friends leave her on the beginner slopes when they went skiing?

5. Why did Ellie's Aunt Leda leave the Amish community?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Lizzie learn in her discussion with Sarah in Chapter 7?

2. What does Lizzie Munor believe happened when she is called to the farm in Chapter 1?

3. What happens when reporters show up to interview the family at their house?

4. What happens to someone who has done something wrong against the Amish code of living?

5. In Chapter 1, why does Ellie Hathaway take Katie's case?

6. In Chapter 7, what does Ellie want to know when she confronts Katie after she learns from Lizzie that Samuel had never been intimate with Katie?

7. How did Levi, a farm hand, find the baby?

8. In Chapter 5, when Katie recalls moments of her past, she recalled meeting someone at Jacob's graduation. Who was it?

9. What is a dissociative state and when can it occur?

10. What does Katie talk to Coop about in Chapter 8?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Men play an important role in the book. Discuss one English man and one Amish man 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

Throughout the book, there are many secrets, some of which impact the plot. Discuss two secrets which are revealed by the end of the book. Who knows the secret? Whose secret is it? Why is the secret important to the plot? How is the secret revealed? How is the secret hinted at and its revealing foreshadowed?

Essay Topic 3

At various times in the book, Stephen and Coop appear in the story. When they appear, the author discusses Ellie's personal life. Why might the author have chosen to have these two men appear in the book and in Ellie's life? What purpose, if any, might they have to the story? Why might they appear when they appear, but not be around all the time?

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