View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Rita and Ian's new baby?

2. What does Ian find in Lucy's jewelry box?

3. How did Thomas Dulsimore die?

4. Who announces his engagement on Christmas Eve?

5. What kind of work does Sister Harriet do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Daphne hang on the wall in the living room with the other family pictures?

2. Why do the children think that Ian needs a wife?

3. Describe Ian's reaction when Reverend Emmett suggests that he train for the ministry.

4. Why is it significant that Ian discovers Lucy's jewelry box with her important papers?

5. When does Ian tell Reverend Emmett that he will not train for the ministry?

6. Why does Daphne call Ian "Saint Maybe"?

7. Why does Doug want to keep particular items of Bee's when the children are cleaning out the house?

8. What condition is the sewing box in when Daphne and Agatha find it in the closet?

9. When Rita begins to bleed while she's at the bar, how does Daphne's boyfriend Curt take charge of the situation?

10. How does Ian think Daphne reminds him of Lucy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What specific details are used to describe Ariana Pennington? What is it about her that makes the children believe she would be a perfect wife for Ian? Why does Ian seem uninterested?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Reverend Emmett as a force of change in Ian's life. In what way does he influence Ian to accept his role as the children's caregiver? Does he help Ian to better understand himself? Provide at least two textual examples to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

What kind of person is Rita? How does she influence the Bedloe household in positive ways? Does she help make the Bedloe family extraordinary again?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 766 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample