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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 are the ingredients of the salve that Lisbeth gets for Mattie after Mattie is whipped?

2. How old will Lisbeth and other daughters of plantation owners when they begin attending dances?

3. How soon after Mattie's mother died, did Mattie learn of her death?

4. What is the year in Chapter 5?

5. What is the name of the plantation where Elizabeth is born?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Mattie's mother?

2. What favor does Mattie ask Mrs. Ann?

3. What sorts of topics are young ladies allowed and not allowed to talk about with young men?

4. Who is Miss Taylor, and what does she teach daughters of plantation owners?

5. How does Lisbeth get Jack and his friends to stop harassing Samuel?

6. Why does Samuel's Sunday visit do nothing to diminish Mattie's anxiety about her son?

7. Why doesn't Mattie share Emmanuel's dreams of freedom?

8. What was the history of Mattie's family?

9. Who is Mrs. Gray?

10. How do the residents of Fair Oaks honor the Sunday Sabbath?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Lisbeth and Mattie spend a lot of time looking out windows. What do windows represent in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Mattie leaves one conch shell for Lisbeth when she leaves. Why does Lisbeth cling to it and then throw the shell away, only to search for it desperately?

Essay Topic 3

Mattie abandons her son in Chapter 1. Why does she abandon her son without protest?

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