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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 words does Michael say at Schroon Lake that Corrine remembers twenty-four years later as she sits in Dr. Oakley's office?

2. What happens when Marianne drops her garment bag?

3. How does Corrine feel about the Mt. Ephraim Country Club?

4. In the chapter titled "Phase," what does Michael Sr. begin doing late at night?

5. How many members of the Mulvaney family are there at the beginning of the story?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the chapter, "Imminent Mortality", how does Michael Sr. react to the news that his daughter has been raped?

2. What does the title of the story imply in comparison to the title of the first chapter, "Storybook House?"

3. What does Lydia Bethune tell Corrine about Marianne and what bothers her the most about the revelation?

4. Judd happens upon his father talking to his older brothers about some kind of secret. What is the discussion about and what is the significance of the discussion?

5. What questions are triggered about himself as Patrick thinks about the drawing, "The Huntsman?"

6. What does Judd reveal in the extremely short chapter, "Gone?"

7. What exactly does Patrick mean when he says "execution of justice?"

8. Why is Judd so insistent to find out what has happened to his sister that he put the family in such a turmoil?

9. What is the toll on Judd as his siblings leave home?

10. What upsets Corrine when she finds a matchbook in Michael's pants pocket from the Wolf's Head Inn?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Have the students write an essay about Michael Mulvaney's relationship with his own father and how that might have impacted the kind of father he was.

Essay Topic 2

Examine the reaction of the family to the trauma of Marianne's rape and the changes they all underwent because of it. Are the actions of the people in town avoiding them part of what causes those changes, or are the changes part of what causes the people in town to avoid them? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Explain what sending Marianne away to live with a cousin they hardly knew was supposed to accomplish. After reading the entire story, does it accomplish that? If not, why not?

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