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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. Who is Leni's court-appointed attorney in Chapter 30?
2. How many years have passed since Cora and Leni left Alaska in the beginning of Chapter 27?
3. Why do Leni and Matthew abandon their picnic in Chapter 19?
4. Why does Tom Walker say he is digging a trench in Chapter 20?
5. What is the carved heart made of on the necklace that Matthew gives Leni in Chapter 17?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the courtroom described in Chapter 30?
2. What does Ernt do when he finds Matthew on his property coming to visit Leni in Part 2? How does Leni respond?
3. What causes Cora's death? What does she do before dying?
4. Why does Leni write a personal statement in Chapter 17? What is revealed in it?
5. What guilt does Cora struggle with in Part 3?
6. What is related in Leni's "My Alaska" essay in the novel's conclusion?
7. Why does Matthew become upset when Leni visits him in the end of the novel?
8. How does Tom react when he meets Leni at the jail?
9. How does Leni manage to meet up with Matthew in Chapter 19? What happens when they do?
10. How does Matthew become seriously injured in Part 2?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and analyze the plot structure of The Great Alone. What is the inciting event that sets the plot into motion? Where does the rising action begin? Where is the climax? What information does the reader learn in the falling action and denouement?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss the themes of forbidden love and deception in The Great Alone. What characters deceive one another in the narrative? Do you think these characters are justified in their deception? Why or why not? How is forbidden love connected to the theme of deception?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze and discuss Leni Allbright as the protagonist of The Great Alone. How does Leni's character drive the story? What are the major conflicts her character faces? How does Leni change in the course of the narrative?
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