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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. In Poe's report dated November 17, where did Miss Marquis ask her to meet him?
2. How long does Private Horatio Cochrane think he was gone from the hospital after a person he believed was an officer told him to report to Lieutenant Meadows' quarters?
3. What time does Mrs. Marquis invite Landor to a dinner party in Chapter 23?
4. How is Ballinger's body mutilated after he is hanged?
5. In Chapter 21, what time is Landor to meet Hitchcock to discuss Ballinger's death?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where does the Marquis family live?
2. Why does Poe believe that the dead haunt the living?
3. How is Ballinger killed?
4. What lies does Landor learn that Poe has told?
5. What happens when Hitchcock and Landor search Artemus' room?
6. Whose uniform does Dr. Marquis say was in the back of Artemus' closet?
7. How did Lea come to take Poe for a sleigh ride?
8. What arrangements are made at Benny Havens' establishment for times when one of Thayer's men would come looking for cadets?
9. What does Dr. Marquis say about the heart Hitchcock and Landor find in Artemus' woodbox?
10. During Poe's visit to the Marquis home for tea, what invitation did he extend to Miss Marquis, and what was her response?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
An allusion is a figure of speech that does not directly refer to a person, place, or thing. What are some allusions in The Pale Blue Eye? Why might it be difficult to decipher an allusion just by the context of a passage in a book? How do the allusions Bayard uses help readers’ understanding of characters or concepts?
Essay Topic 2
What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in The Pale Blue Eye? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and characters? How does it help readers connect with and understand characters, especially Landor and Poe?
Essay Topic 3
Setting is the place or places where a story happens. Where does The Pale Blue Eye take place? How do characters feel about the various settings and why?
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