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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 type of dog do the Swarts have?

2. Where does Amor go after her mother's funeral?

3. What breaks in Amor's room when she goes to change after going into her mother's empty room?

4. At the time of Rachel's death, how long ago did Rachel come to the Swart house as a pregnant bride?

5. During Rachel's funeral, when does Rabbi Katz say that Rachel came to him and wanted to return to the Jewish faith?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Marina feel as she supervises Salome?

2. What does Amor think about her aunt's cooking when Tannie Marina picks her up from school after her mother dies?

3. What does Anton tell Salome he wants to do when he is done with the army?

4. Where is the Swart farm, and why it is not a real farm?

5. How is Amor sleeping the night after her mother dies?

6. How does Rachel's spirit linger around the house in a state of confusion?

7. What does Anton decide to do when he returns to the military base?

8. How have Amor's aunt and uncle changed and prepared themselves to take her home after she learns her mother died?

9. What does the Swart house look like?

10. What does the Laubscher house and yard look like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

An inciting incident is an event in literature that begins the action of a story, and presents a question that the protagonists and readers want an answer to. What are the inciting incidents in the first two sections of The Promise? What do these events trigger? How do they affect characters and their paths?

Essay Topic 2

Anton marries Desiree. Why is Desiree unhappy in their marriage? What did she expect the marriage to be like? How have her expectations not been met? How does the reality of her marriage make her discontented?

Essay Topic 3

Conflicts between characters are often caused by a problem. What are some conflicts that occur in The Promise? Are the conflicts in the book mostly man vs. man, man vs. nature, or man vs. self? Are they internal or external conflicts?

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