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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. Where does Aldred take Helen on New Year's Day?

2. Who does Peter know helps him with the dying child without question?

3. Where does Barbara's father promise to take the family for three years now?

4. Who is delivering a letter from Helen to Benedict in person?

5. What about Benedict seems to improve, even as his health fails?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Peter attempt suicide?

2. Why does Aldred believe he has survived all of his past obstacles?

3. What is Peter's long-term prognosis by the doctor?

4. Why does Aldred turn down Calder's offer to work as a spy?

5. Why do the Fry women like Helen so much?

6. How does Peter become ill?

7. What do the Fry women think about Helen's love of Aldred?

8. Where does Aldred get the coat he and Helen are lying on in the grove?

9. What are the crisis' that Aldred must deal with upon his return from Nagasaki?

10. Why does Aldred want to talk to Barry and Melba?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the women and the role they play in Aldred's life. Choose at least three women in the book and discuss the influence they have over Aldred and the actions he takes because of each woman.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Helen's transformation from a girl to a woman throughout the book. Describe her on the day Aldred first sees her. Describe her on the day he wakes her from sleeping on the front porch. What changes? Why does she change? Use examples.

Essay Topic 3

Why does Aldred struggle with finding his home? Why does he even have problems claiming a hometown?

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