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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Mattie learn Royal informed of Emmie Hubbard’s back-taxes in Chapter 29?
(a) Uncle Fifty.
(b) Belinda Becker.
(c) Arn Satterlee.
(d) Lawton Gokey.

2. Weaver is beaten up by three men who are what in Chapter 22?
(a) Politicians.
(b) Trappers.
(c) Doctors.
(d) Gravediggers.

3. What is the name of the young woman who is engaged to Royal Loomis’s older brother?
(a) Abby Gokey.
(b) Martha Miller.
(c) Emily Baxter.
(d) Belinda Becker.

4. Less than how many of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published in her lifetime?
(a) 3.
(b) 9.
(c) 12.
(d) 6.

5. What happens to the men that beat up Weaver in Chapter 25?
(a) They are hanged.
(b) They are jailed.
(c) They are awarded money.
(d) They are freed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Royal Loomis tells Mattie that he wants to buy her what in Chapter 18?

2. Where does Miss Wilcox say she intends to flee to in her letter in Chapter 27?

3. Weaver confronts Mattie in Chapter 30 of her need to face the truth regarding what?

4. While reading the works of Emily Dickinson in Chapter 23, Mattie considers whether what is incompatible with being a writer?

5. What happens to Henry after he causes the milk to explode at the Glenmore?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Mattie and her coworkers elicit revenge on Mr. Maxwell in Chapter 31?

2. What event leads to Mattie’s employment at the Glenmore Hotel? How?

3. How is the character of Mr. Maxwell introduced in Chapter 20? What are Mattie’s impressions of this character?

4. How are the themes of duty and responsibility illustrated in Chapters 23-26?

5. How is the theme of appearances versus reality manifested in A Northern Light?

6. What information does Miss Wilcox confess to Mattie in Chapter 17?

7. What event takes place surrounding Weaver Smith’s character in Chapter 22?

8. What does Miss Wilcox send to Mattie in Chapter 27? What news does she relate in her letter?

9. How does Mattie’s visit to Minnie affect her perceptions of family and marriage in Chapter 23?

10. What leads Mattie to leave the Glenmore Hotel and go home for a week in Chapter 25?

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