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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 does Mr. Thomas give Zorrie to do for a bit of work in Part I?

2. What are Harold's feelings about Zorrie's miscarriage?

3. Where does Zorrie sometimes sleep in the beginning of her work a the factory?

4. When does Zorrie leave school permanently?

5. Who helps out around the farm in an early summer in Part II?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Zorrie meet Harold?

2. What did an accident on the farm rob Noah Summers of?

3. How does the community seem to view Virgil?

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

5. Where does Zorrie get a job in Part I for a few months?

6. Why does Zorrie leave her first job in Part I, even though she makes friends there?

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

8. Why is Zorrie called a "ghost girl"?

9. What does Zorrie dream about right after Harold's funeral service?

10. What does Zorrie suspect Mr. Thomas, her old teacher, does to be able to give her some work?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Hunt treat the topic of mortality - and Zorrie's attitudes towards it - at the end of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How does Laird demonstrate the effects of being raised by such a strict and joyless aunt on Zorrie in the early part of the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

How does Zorrie's Indiana community handle the fact of Opal's mental illness and of Noah's reaction to it? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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