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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 is the name of the Spencer family pet?

2. After a huge breakfast, Christy is directed to Miss Alice Henderson's what?

3. To make it easier to tolerate the smell of the children Christy does what?

4. If the first day of spring warrants it, Fairlight will leave her housework to do what?

5. Music is in the hearts of the highlanders and most of the time, when calling on the families, David carries his what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the effect that waking up and seeing the Great Smoky Mountains has on Christy.

2. What are Christy's thoughts about Ruby Mae?

3. As Christy revisits the Gap, many things bring back memories for her. What are some of those things?

4. Briefly describe Dr. MacNeill's family history.

5. Are the mountain people mean and impersonal on purpose, in your opinion?

6. Explain how sewing buttons on a coat helped Christy to make progress with the children.

7. Do you agree with Christy's anger towards Dr. MacNeill about the death of Opal's baby?

8. Explain the significance of the trashed school.

9. How does Christy approach her meeting with Mr. Hazen Smith?

10. What is Mrs. Tatum's reaction to Christy's desire to go to Cutter Gap and teach and do you agree with it? Why or why not?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The mountain people are very self-reliant and wary of outsiders. Write about two concrete examples of that from the story. One should be an example of how that attitude helped one of them. The other should be about a time that that attitude hurt one of them. Based on your findings, write about whether you feel that self-reliance is a good or bad trait and why.

Essay Topic 2

One of the major themes of the story is belief in a higher power, or lack thereof. Choose any two characters from the story and describe at least three examples for each character where faith or lack of faith played a major part in that character's development.

Essay Topic 3

CHRISTY is a book that is full of life lessons.

Part 1: Choose any three major life lessons that the book taught and describe the sections of the book where those lessons were taught. Then, explain which of those three life lessons you feel was the most important and why.

Part 2: Was there anything taught in the book that you disagreed with? If not, why not? If so, what was it and why did you disagree with it?

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