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 does Aunt Betty ask for as soon as she wakes from her fever?

2. What does Mama say might happen to ruin her business?

3. How did Hilly die?

4. Who is visiting Mrs. Stillman when Lark arrives?

5. What does Mama look for in her purse?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Mama and Aunt Betty leave the depot in the middle of the night? What is Lark instructed to do?

2. What is Lark's reaction after her confession and what does she wonder about the adults who have gone through this?

3. Describe the situation that arises when the hobo stops at Lark's house.

4. What is the significance of Lark's statements about Myrna Loy and Mr. Brown?

5. What is the effect of Aunt Betty's affair on Grandma, and what does Mama say about Grandma's reaction?

6. What does Mrs. Stillman say about Hilly's death?

7. What does Lark hear Mrs. Wheeler reveal to Mrs. Stillman?

8. Why does Papa say that Lark has to fear God? What example does he give her in an attempt to prove it?

9. What does Lark do when it's time for Communion and what does that prompt Papa to do?

10. Why does Lark refuse to go to Mass and what is Papa's reaction?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the significance of the pretty lady on the train who never introduces herself to Lark? What does Lark imagine about the lady? Why?

Essay Topic 2

What is the role of the Catholic Church in this story? What does Lark believe about the Catholic Church? How and why does this attitude change? Can you predict what role the Church will play in Lark's later life? Support your predictions.

Essay Topic 3

Why does Lark come to believe she's responsible for the death of Marjorie Ann? How does she come to know she's not? How do the two pieces of knowledge affect her?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 909 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample