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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. Barker fantasizes about whom?

2. What happens to Daisy and Barker at the end of the chapter?

3. What is Daisy's last name?

4. Cuyler Goowill travels with whom leading up to this point in chapter five?

5. Where does the money Barker sends Daisy come from?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Cuyler's attitude toward stone and sculptures.

2. Why might Daisy have not described the first eleven years of her life?

3. What was Mercy's background?

4. Describe Daisy's change of residence when she turns eleven.

5. Describe the circumstances surrounding Daisy's birth.

6. What do you think the purpose of Magnus Flett's trip to the Orkney Islands was, and did he fulfill that purpose?

7. Do you think that Daisy made the right choice in marrying her second husband, Barker Flett?

8. What is Daisy's attitude, early in chapter four, regarding her late husband's death?

9. Does Cuyler respect his late wife, Mercy?

10. Why do you think that Daisy and her family are restless, in chapter five?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Use at least five detailed examples from the book to explain the significance of plant life in the story. Also, explain at least one example of how plants, or life in general, are tied into the theme of stone in the story.

Essay Topic 2

Choose any one of the following characters from the story and explain their role in the book. When and how were they introduced? How did they evolve as the story progressed? Also, what, if anything, do you think they symbolize and why? Be sure to use several examples from the book to support your answers.

Beans

Fraidy

Pinky

Harold

Jay

Essay Topic 3

There are several relationships between couples in the story. However, each one seems to be somewhat dysfunctional.

Part 1. Choose any couple in the story and describe their relationship and the problems with it.

Part 2. Describe what you would to to correct the problems if you were part of that couple.

Part 3. Explain whether or not you think that some conflict is actually good in a relationship and why or why not.

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