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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 Abigail see in place of the fence?
2. What mammal does William see at the large freshwater lake in the middle of the swamp?
3. When Abigail is being honest with herself, she find herself wishing that ______________was not alive.
4. In what direction has the sun set at the beginning of "The Keepers of the House"?
5. How many people are among the "parade of figures" that Abigail sees in her mind?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Lorena Adams.
2. Describe the land that William Marshall Howland claims.
3. How does William live his life after the death of his wife and son?
4. In addition to the month being stated, what other clues about the season is the reader given in the first paragraph?
5. What has survived the frost in the first section to Abigail's surprise and how?
6. What delays William's trip into the swamp to find the Robertson's liquor still?
7. What are Abigail's younger children doing as she stands on the porch?
8. What caused the "ugly smears" in the sky in October in the first section?
9. In the first Book of Abigail, what does Abigail remember of being a child in this house?
10. What is the reaction when William subscribes to the New York Tribune at his daughter's request?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the purpose of naming a child after a parent, in particular, naming sons after their fathers? When William Marshal Howland has a son, he is named only William Howland with the explanation that "his mother having come from ordinary people with no feeling for their name." Is naming of children tied to class or status?
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast the mood of the writing between the Book of William and the Book of Margaret.
Essay Topic 3
Describe the effects of the Depression on the Howland family.
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