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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 Az give to Ross?
2. When Cissy is sneaking away to meet Gray Wolf, who does she tell her husband she is seeing?
3. Who, other than Ross, sees the words written by Lia?
4. When Eli meets Ethan, what does he think of him?
5. After seeing Meredith, what does Ross know about Ruby Weber?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Eli discover how Cissy died?
2. What language does Cissy speak to her husband? What does she say?
3. What excuse does Spencer give about his wife and child's burial?
4. Why does Ruby continue to lie to Ross about Cissy's baby?
5. When Cissy tries to tell her husband who her father is, what does Spencer do?
6. Who is Ruby referring to when she talks about someone she knew who was a sleepwalker?
7. What does Ethan tell Lucy about their conditions?
8. Who are the Abenaki named for? What does Az wonder about their name?
9. How does Az view age?
10. According to Ruby, what was the heart attack a warning of?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What does it mean when Eli's mother talked to him about "passing?" From the information in the novel, can you tell what this was? What was his mother trying to do? What price do you think Eli paid for his mother's beliefs? Was he also protected by her beliefs? How?
Essay Topic 2
Henry Perkins was a real person who started the Eugenics Survey of Vermont, but Harry Beaumont and Spencer Pike are fictional. How does this affect the story for you to know that this really happened and that there were real people who did this kind of work?
Essay Topic 3
What are the descriptions from Spencer's lecture about African Americans? What does he say about the Missing Link? How were you surprised by the information in his lectures? Do you think these were real thoughts and ideas? What would this be thought of as today?
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