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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 Shay wonder about in Part 1 Chapter 17?

2. What is Shay's daughter named?

3. Who is the author of "The Mirror"?

4. What does Shay have a vision of in Part 1 Chapter 8?

5. What did Thora K not want Corbin to become?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Shay realize in Part I Chapter 16?

2. Who is Lon Maddon?

3. What public figure dies in Part I Chapter 19 and how does Thora K react to the death?

4. What happens when Shay briefly inhabits her own body in Part I Chapter 15?

5. What does the reader learn of the history of the mirror in Backward?

6. Where does Hutch take Shay in Part I Chapter 20?

7. What happens to John McCabe in Part I Chapter 14?

8. Who are the main characters of the novel, and what is their connection to one another?

9. How does Shay and her family feel about her impending nuptials in Part I Chapter 2?

10. What happens when Hutch Maddon is thrown from his horse in Part I Chapter 13?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and interpret the character Shay. What are her defining character traits? What is her role in the story? What struggles or obstacles does she face throughout the novel? Does she grow as a character? If so, how?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the motif of motherhood in the novel "The Mirror". How does motherhood change Shay? How does she cope with mothering her own mother, Rachael?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the marriages between Shay and Corbin, Shay and Hutch and Rachael and Jerry. Do they love and respect each other? Are these marriages happy ones? What are some obstacles that they face as couples?

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