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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. How many days before the Mass Dragoning, did Marla visit Alex and her family for the last time?
2. How long after the Mass Dragoning of 1955 did Alex's mother die?
3. How many days after Professor Gantz wrote A Brief History of Dragons, were all but one copy of the book destroyed?
4. When activists invaded a secretive House Subcommittee on Compensation and Resolution in January 1956, where did reports of the standoff appear in the newspaper?
5. How old was Beatrice the summer before Alex started high school?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is known about the Mass Dragoning?
2. How was Alex's aunt Marla different from most women of the time?
3. What information was disseminated about the Mass Dragoning of 1955?
4. What was reported about Marya Tilman's dragoning?
5. How did a priest stop young women from turning into dragons?
6. What was the house like where Sonja and her grandparents lived?
7. What happened to Sonja?
8. What conversation did Alex and Aunt Marla have three days before the dragoning?
9. How did George feel when Bertha started gardening?
10. What happened at a Los Angeles bar in 1959?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Gender roles are expectations and behaviors a society has for people based on their gender—male or female. In When Women Were Dragons, gender roles force women to play subservient roles and limit the opportunities they have to direct their lives. How do gender roles affect women and girls in the novel?
Essay Topic 3
An allusion is a figure of speech that does not directly refer to a person, place, or thing. What are some allusions in When Women Were Dragons? Why might it be difficult to decipher an allusion just by the context of a passage in a book? How do the allusions Barnhill uses help readers’ understanding of characters or concepts?
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