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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 is the weather in Chapter 7?

2. What is Auntie making at the beginning of Chapter 6?

3. In Chapter 9, where is Maren when Mr. Peterman and his son make a delivery?

4. In Clara's dream in Chapter 8, who does she see coming out of the water?

5. In Chapter 3, what is the design of Scarff's pipe?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 5, what do Clara and Auntie do as September arrives?

2. In Chapter 8, what does Clara dream?

3. In Chapter 12, why does Clara scold O'Neill for promising Osbert licorice lozenges?

4. In Chapter 3, how does Scarff remember that O'Neill came to travel with him?

5. In Chapter 7, what do Maren and Clara do after breakfast on Christmas morning?

6. In Chapter 4, what happens when Maren tells Simon that she wants a pair of gloves at the medicine show?

7. Why does Simon come to Auntie's house in Chapter 6?

8. In Chapter 8, what do Auntie and Clara tell Simon when he comes to take Maren to a dance?

9. In Chapter 1, how is Maren changing?

10. In Chapter 11 where does O'Neill sleep and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Faith is a theme in the novel. What role does faith play in the story? What do characters have faith in? Which character has the strongest faith? Why?

Essay Topic 2

Clara is the protagonist of the novel. Who would be the protagonist in the story? Is there more than one protagonist? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

There are different forms of love in the novel, but romantic love is the main type of love in the story. What love triangle does there seem to be in the story? How does O’Neill reveal his love for Clara and explain why it appeared that he loved Maren? What other strong romantic relationship is revealed in the novel? What do the relationships between O’Neill and Clara and Auntie and Scarff reveal about romantic love?

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