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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. Where is Kit to sleep her first night in the Colony?

2. What does Kit think of the fields of the Great Meadow?

3. How does Kit find the work of weeding the onion patch?

4. What story does Kit have the students act out?

5. What rumor is Mrs. Cruff spreading about Kit on their boat ride to Wethersfield?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 6, what role is Andros playing in the Colonies?

2. What happens when Kit first arrives in Wethersfield?

3. What story does Kit share with her relatives when she first arrives, telling them how she came to be penniless?

4. Why are the schoolmaster and reverend upset when they come to the class to observe Mercy and Kit teaching?

5. How does Rachel defend her niece's prayer-meeting attire to Matthew?

6. In Chapter 2, what information does the reader learn about Kit's parents?

7. How is her relatives' house in the Colony different than Kit's house in Barbados?

8. What causes a tense moment between Dr. Bulkeley and Matthew while they are dining together at the Woods' house after prayer meeting?

9. How do her cousins respond to Kit's inability to do chores?

10. When they leave the morning prayer service, what news is Kit appalled to learn?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Define what a setting is in a novel. Please explain the purpose of the setting and what the overall setting is in this novel. Provide three examples of more specific settings that occur in pivotal moments of the novel. Explain why a setting is so important to the overall story.

Essay Topic 2

Please explain the process that Kit goes through in adapting to her new life in Wethersfield. Give a general overview of her adjustment to the life there, from her arrival to the final chapter in the novel. What are some ways Kit is successful in adjusting to Wethersfield? What are some ways Kit is unsuccessful or unwilling to adapt?

Essay Topic 3

Please define the role of the "protagonist" and "antagonist" in a literary work. Describe one protagonist and one antagonist in "The Witch of Blackbird Pond." Note what makes them either the protagonist or antagonist, their relationship each other, and provide at least one clear example in which the protagonist and antagonist interact in a contentious situation.

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