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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 the name of Alex's eight grade English teacher?

2. What color was Sonja's hair?

3. How many husbands were swallowed during the Mass Dragoning?

4. How long after the Mass Dragoning of 1955 did Alex's mother die?

5. What were the names of woman who wrote letters that Marla left with Alex?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened at a Los Angeles bar in 1959?

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

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

4. When did Professor Gantz witness a dragoning and what was it like?

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

6. How did George feel when Bertha started gardening?

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

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

9. What was the house like where Sonja and her grandparents lived?

10. What is known about the Mass Dragoning?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Barnhill reveals Alex’s life during pivotal times. How do the events in When Women Were Dragons help Alex mature and grow in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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

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