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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. How long was the first part of Day’s life?

2. What did Day say she was confessing with this book?

3. What happened to some of Day’s friends when the draft was put in place?

4. What was the most important moral lesson Day learned as a child?

5. How often did the New York Call go to print?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the results of the agitations Day was involved in?

2. How did Day’s father treat his family?

3. What did Day write about mostly when she first moved to New York?

4. How did Day feel when she was exposed to Tolstoi?

5. What went wrong between Raph and Rayna?

6. What was in the letter reprinted by Day?

7. How did Day support herself when she first left home?

8. What was the first job Day held in New York City?

9. How did Day comfort herself in prison, and how did this make her feel?

10. What changed in Day’s life after the earthquake?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the characters touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 2

Day spent a lot of time at religious retreats. What did she do at these, and what made them so worthwhile to her?

Essay Topic 3

Day described her journey to religion in this book. What was this journey like and how did it begin?

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