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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. At the end of Chapter 4, how long was Alex's uncle gone on a bender?

2. What was the name of Alex's eight grade English teacher?

3. In Chapter 17, what material did Bertha use to tie a new knot around Alex's wrist?

4. Where did Bertha work when she graduated from college?

5. After Bertha's cancer returned and George took her to the hospital, how many nights were Beatrice and Alex on their own?

Short Essay Questions

1. What conversation did Alex and Aunt Marla have three days before the dragoning?

2. Where did Alex and Beatrice live after their mother died and why?

3. Why did Bertha start sleeping in Alex and Beatrice's room?

4. What was reported about Marya Tilman's dragoning?

5. What was Alex's experience when she met a dragon, and what did she learn from the experience?

6. Where did Alex keep things from her mother, and what did she keep there?

7. When Alex sought out her aunt Marla's former co-workers, what did they tell her about the day her aunt disappeared?

8. What happened to Sonja?

9. What was Alex's punishment after Sonja was sent away?

10. What was Alex and the other girls in her fifth grade class told when Dr. Angus Ferguson came to their class to talk about changes?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Bertha and George Green were married. How would you describe their relationship?

Essay Topic 2

Innuendo involves using veiled remarks or suggestions to hint at information without stating it directly. It might be used to subtly talk about sexual, offensive, or derogatory subjects. How is innuendo used in When Women Were Dragons to discuss dragoning and dragons?

Essay Topic 3

In media res is the technique of beginning a story with a pivotal point or a situation that is the end to a series of events. Where does Branhill begin the story? How does she plunge into the situation with the dragons? How does beginning the story in the middle of the action affect the plot and affect readers?

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