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

2. Who asks Zorrie if she is alright when Zorrie grows very thin after Gus's and Bessie's deaths?

3. What does Zorrie finds out has happened to Mr. Thomas when she visits him after her factory work in Part I?

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

5. Where does Zorrie travel after leaving work at the factory?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Harold feel guilty about Zorrie miscarrying?

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

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

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

6. What do the women at the factory do with the radium in their free time?

7. In Part I, what does Zorrie notice as a difference in the way she feels while working?

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

9. What is Zorrie known throughout the county as for many years?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Zorrie decide to travel abroad for the first time in her life at the end of the novel, and what does she discover in Amsterdam? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

Why does Zorrie earn the nickname "Ghost Girl," and what do you think Hunt is trying to tell the readers about Zorrie with this moniker? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How does becoming homeless at age 21, during the Great Depression of the 1930s, affect Zorrie's life trajectory? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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