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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 happened to Zorrie's white oak trees in the late 1950s?
2. What does Opal tell Zorrie they used to let her do at the hospital?
3. What does Lester do with some of the profits from the great harvest?
4. Who does Hank insinuate that he thinks Zorrie might have feelings for?
5. What does Zorrie smell when she wakes at dawn one day in Part IV?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Zorrie start doing with the Summers family that helps with her loneliness?
2. How does Noah react to his father Virgil's death?
3. Who tries to woo Zorrie in Part III and how does it end up?
4. Who does Zorrie go to visit for the first time, and why?
5. What does Marie tell Zorrie that Janie had thought of Zorrie at the end of Janie's life?
6. In Part IV, what does Zorrie realize about Noah's feelings about Zorrie's visit to Opal?
7. In Part III, why does Zorrie travel to Ottawa?
8. What does Noah give Zorrie after Virgil's death?
9. What is one reason that Zorrie realizes she might not have been interested in her suitor in Part III?
10. Why does Zorrie consider classes for Oats?
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 do Zorrie's neighbors support and demonstrate care for her after she loses Harold in the war? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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