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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. When does Brown say he will be home?

2. How does Brown describe the path he is taking?

3. What is Brown looking for on his journey?

4. What does the man in the forest do with Brown?

5. What is the think the man in the forest is carrying made of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Brown admire about his wife as he leaves?

2. Why does Brown think Faith doesn’t trust him?

3. Where is Brown going?

4. How does Brown feel when he hears about the people in town who know the man in the forest?

5. How does Brown feel when he meets with the man in the forest?

6. What does Brown say that makes the man in the forest laugh?

7. Who in town does the man in the forest say he knows?

8. Why is Brown so afraid as he enters the forest?

9. What is Brown doing at the beginning of the book?

10. What did Brown’s grandfather do to a woman?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Faith was a minor character whose presence made a big difference in the plot. How did she accomplish this? What are some ways that her presence- however brief, altered the outcome of the plot? What would have happened differently if Faith had not been in the book at all?

Essay Topic 2

The man in the forest is a strange character. Who is he, and how does he appear?

Essay Topic 3

Goody Cloyse is a very important character in the story. Why is this, and what message does her presence send?

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