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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 does Zorrie travel after leaving work at the factory?

2. What material does Zorrie use in her factory job?

3. What does Harold ask Zorrie for when she dreams of him in Part II after his death?

4. Who is Zorrie's favorite teacher?

5. What does Noah's wife do that leads her to be institutionalized?

Short Essay Questions

1. Early in Part II, what great news do Zorrie and Harold share with Gus and Bessie?

2. What does Zorrie do after her aunt's death?

3. How does Hunt describe Zorrie's work ethic?

4. What does Zorrie seem to think of the community's treatment of the topic of miscarriage?

5. How does the community seem to view Virgil?

6. How does Zorrie meet Harold?

7. How does Zorrie largely handle her feelings about Harold's death in the years immediately following it?

8. In Part II, what happens when Zorrie tries to drive to visit her old friends in Ottawa?

9. What tragedy does Zorrie learn about in Noah's life in Part II?

10. How does Harold die in the war?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Zorrie cope, at different times in her life throughout the novel, with the plague of loneliness? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How does Laird communicate Zorrie's deep feelings about Indiana, her homeland, to the reader? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How does Laird treat the themes of hardship and struggle throughout the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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