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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 long after Alex's mother died did she and Beatrice meet Miss Olson?

2. In the summer of 1957, how many Girl Guides went on a two-week scouting expedition into the Everglades?

3. When was the first case of spontaneous dragoning?

4. On the day of the dragoning, what time did Marla tells her co-workers to take anything of hers and tell them she was not coming back?

5. When did Black female employees of a fishery in Alabama strike for fair wages, safer conditions, and an end to racist abuse?

Short Essay Questions

1. What information was disseminated about the Mass Dragoning of 1955?

2. How did a priest stop young women from turning into dragons?

3. How did George feel when Bertha started gardening?

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

5. What happened to a group of Girl Guides who went on a scouting expedition into the Everglades?

6. How did Alex's father feel about his wife's accomplishments?

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

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

9. What was Alex told about Beatrice after Aunt Marla disappeared?

10. What happened to Sonja?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Setting is the place or places where a story happens. Where does When Women Were Dragons take place? How do characters, especially Alex, feel about the place and why?

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

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?

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