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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 was Niles's occupation?

2. Why did Laura and her husband take jobs off of their farm?

3. How did Rose educate herself?

4. Where did Rose store her mother's letters?

5. What did Rose say she and Laura would do when she was not working?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Laura tell her husband to do to stay happy?

2. What did Niles do for a living, and what did he take Laura to see?

3. What was Laura's nickname, and why?

4. What did Laura, Rose, and Gillette do at the Sutro Estate?

5. Why did Laura not like the Harvard lawyer on the train?

6. Who built Rose's house, and why was this so significant?

7. What was Laura told she would need while she was in Springfield, and what did she do about this?

8. How did Laura describe the Great Salt Lake?

9. How did Laura describe her first view of the Pacific Ocean?

10. How did Laura feel after her visit to a fruit cannery, and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was Laura's writing process, and how did she come to create this process for herself?

Essay Topic 2

Shame and propriety were common themes throughout this book. What were some of the instances where these themes were present, and why were they so important to the people involved?

Essay Topic 3

Many different people in this book were persuaded to do things that they would not have done of their own accord? What were some of these instances, and how did persuasion affect their lives?

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