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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 Hank ask Zorrie to do in Part IV?
2. What does Zorrie briefly consider doing about Oats?
3. Why does Zorrie have to slaughter her pigs?
4. Who had Janie most wanted near her side at the end of her life?
5. Who tells Zorrie about a nearby blueberry farm?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Part IV, what does Zorrie realize about Noah's feelings about Zorrie's visit to Opal?
2. What does Zorrie bring Opal when she goes to see her, and how does Opal react?
3. Who does Zorrie go to visit for the first time, and why?
4. In Part III, why does Zorrie travel to Ottawa?
5. Who tries to woo Zorrie in Part III and how does it end up?
6. In Part III, why does Zorrie feel new grief over her miscarriage many years earlier?
7. In Part III, what does it break Zorrie's heart to be forced to do on her farm?
8. What does Noah do in Part IV that seems like an act of desperation?
9. What horrifies all the women who used to work at the radium factory in Part III?
10. What does Ruby get for Zorrie to try to help with Zorrie's loneliness?
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
How do Zorrie's friendships with Janie and Marie impact her life as a young woman, and her later years? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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