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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. How much does Grace tell Jordan about her dream of the previous night?

2. What does the peddler say quietly to Grace about who she is?

3. How many siblings does Grace say she has?

4. With whom does Grace’s father find lodging when they arrive in Canada?

5. What does Jordan think he needs to do before he can open a private asylum?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mrs. Humphreys do at the opening of Chapter 6 and what is Dr. Jordan’s response?

2. Where is Grace taken after her encounter with the doctor and what does she describe there?

3. What first happens when a doctor comes into the parlor at the governor’s house and why does it happen?

4. What document starts Chapter 2?

5. What happens at the Parkinsons that changes both Mary and Grace’s circumstances?

6. What is bothering Jordan in Chapter 4?

7. What does Grace say she started doing in the asylum and what was the result of these actions?

8. How does Dr. Jordan help Mrs. Humphreys’ situation?

9. What does Grace say is in the governor’s wife’s scrapbook and what does Grace say about some of it?

10. To whom does Mrs. Burt introduce Grace and what position does that woman hold? How does the woman help Grace?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

Identify the protagonists of the story and why you believe they are such? Identify the antagonists of the story and why you believe they are such? Which three secondary characters have the greatest impact on the plot? Which, if any, characters are not essential to the story? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss one of the following:

Trace and analyze the theme of sexuality in Alias Grace. Consider the following questions as you write: Examine which characters are most concerned with sexuality and about what their concern is centered. How does sexuality play such a major role in Alias Grace? How is sexuality at least partly to blame for Grace ending up in prison?

Trace and analyze the theme of feminism in Alias Grace. What does the novel have to say about the roles of women in the 1800’s? Is the view of women’s treatment and power in that era positive or negative? Why? What does feminism have to do with Grace’s life?

Essay Topic 3

Upon her release from prison, the historical Grace was required to fill out a questionnaire, which still exists. The questionnaire asks the immediate cause of the crime for which Grace went to prison. She writes as an answer that it was from working in a house which also had a villain working there.

Discuss the above statement in terms of what Grace claims happened when Nancy and Thomas Kinnear were killed and in terms of what James McDermott says happened. Use examples from Alias Grace to support your response.

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