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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 looks like a choppy sea to Abigail?

2. When William comes across a still, the whiskey is aging in ______________.

3. Whose shrieking does Abigail miss in the first Book of Abigail?

4. What does Abigail see when she looks east and north in the first Book of Abigail?

5. What illusion does Abigail have in the first chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the reaction when William subscribes to the New York Tribune at his daughter's request?

2. Describe the Howland tomb and its eventual use.

3. What delays William's trip into the swamp to find the Robertson's liquor still?

4. Describe the land that William Marshall Howland claims.

5. What does Aimee Legendre Howland have a craving for, and how does she meet this craving?

6. Explain the term Freejack.

7. Immediately after Lorena's death, what plants does William notice?

8. Why is the November evening so quiet and final?

9. What does the narrator mean when she says that the county will find out about her oldest daughters being sent away because "they always know everything"?

10. What memories does Abigail think of after she thinks the owl flies over the river?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the effects of the Depression on the Howland family.

Essay Topic 2

At the end of the book, Abigail has taken steps to enact her revenge. She demonstrates that she is the one in power. If she is indeed, in power, then why does the book end with her unraveling into tears?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss why Margaret defers to Ramona, another servant, by accepting the worst of the bedding and addressing her with "Yes'm."

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