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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 Mrs. Medlock think of the moor?

2. Why is all the plant-life on the moor so low to the ground?

3. What does Mary do to the servant by her bed when she wakes up on the day the Cholera breaks out?

4. Why has Mary never seen or heard about Collin?

5. What does Mary think the moor is when she first sees it?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do most people think of Mary when they first meet her at the beginning of the book?

2. What is Mary most afraid of when she first brings Dickon to her garden?

3. What does Mary think the moor is when she first drives by it in the carriage?

4. Why does Mrs. Medlock tell Mary that she will not see Mr. Craven while she is at Misselthwaite?

5. Who/what is the first living creature to which Mary makes a connection?

6. How did Mrs. Craven die?

7. What does the Robin show Mary at the bottom of a hole?

8. When wandering around inside on a rainy day, what interesting fact does Mary find about the rooms on the second floor?

9. What does Ben say about Mary after she has been at Misselthwaite Manor for a month?

10. Why is Mary so surprised to hear that Dickon likes her when the two first meet?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do Mary and Colin change through the course of the book and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 2

Colin introduces the theme of magic in this book. Where are some of the key places that this theme appears, and how do these events alter the plot of the book?

Essay Topic 3

Laughter and happiness is a common theme found in this book. Where does this come into play, and how does it affect the characters involved in these scenes?

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