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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. According to Margaret's mother, what is hippin?
2. Where does Margaret wash the clothes?
3. Oliver lived with his sister by a big spring. What was the name of the spring?
4. What did Margaret's family once turned into beads?
5. What do the road crews discover when they blast through McCarren Hill?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Margaret behave after her children leave for boarding school?
2. How does Margaret know that spring has come in the Book of Margaret?
3. What does Margaret find in the Howland woods that she brings back to the house?
4. What are Abigail's days like after she and John marry but before he finishes his last year of law school?
5. What does Abigail remember about Robert as a child?
6. What does Margaret's first bedroom at the Howland home look like?
7. What does Margaret take with her when she moves from New Church to the Howland estate?
8. On moving to Madison City, what does Abigail recall being told about her mother.
9. Describe the Howland kitchen.
10. How long does the great-grandmother's funeral last?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Identify five examples of racial tension in "The Keepers of the House," and analyze them.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
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?
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