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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 Mary Lawton tell George Clare about Hale house before he bids on it?

2. Where does George Clare go the day after his wife's death?

3. Who is George's boss at the college?

4. What bar does Cole sometimes have to go into to extract his father?

5. Which artist does George's dissertation focus on?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Eddy and Cole end up feeling about George Clare?

2. How does the deaths of the Hale parents affect their three children, and where do the children go afterwards?

3. Why do the Hale boys return to the empty house from time to time at the farm?

4. How does Brundage describe the relationship between the three Hale brothers?

5. How do Catherine's parents treat George after Catherine's murder?

6. How does the Hale boys' Uncle Rainer treat them all?

7. How did Ella Cole feel about her husband?

8. Why do Catherine and George Clare end up together in the first place?

9. How do Eddy and Cole end up feeling about Catherine Clare?

10. What does Catherine think the first time she tours the Hale house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

When and how does Catherine Clare finally realize how dangerous George Clare really is? When and how does the reader finally realize how dangerous George Clare really is? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

What role does religious and spiritual faith play in Catherine Clare's life? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

How does Brundage portray the lives of women through the main female characters in this book, including Ella Hale, Catherine Cole, Justine Sokolov, Franny Clare, and Willis Howard? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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