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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 David's big project?

2. Christy awakens and looks out the window and immediately feels embraced by the view of the what?

3. One evening, in an effort to evade Ruby Mae, Christy goes for a walk and ends up by whose cabin?

4. What phrase does the girl with the impediment utter clearly after Christy helps her?

5. By taking some of her slowest readers ___________, Christy discovers that they learn faster.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Is Christy spoiled?

3. Why is Christy so discouraged about her work with the children after a month?

4. Describe the irony of David's opinion that the money for a horse for the mission is only a coincidence.

5. What role does religion play in Christy's move to Cutter Gap?

6. Do you think it was right for moonshine whiskey to be outlawed back in Christy's time? Why or why not?

7. 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?

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

9. Why is the Spencer family pet unusual?

10. When the phone comes to Cutter Gap, everyone is excited. Explain how this seems contradictory to the rest of the book so far.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The children of Cutter Gap are quite unique. They haven't had much of a proper education and have many idiosyncrasies. Answer the following questions about those children:

1. In what ways do the children of Cutter Gap have disadvantages?

2. In what ways do the children of Cutter Gap have advantages?

3. How do the children change throughout the book and are those changes good or bad?

Essay Topic 2

Discussion of the shadow of the mountain foreshadows the death of Christy's friend, Fairlight, in the book. List and describe, in detail, three other examples of how the author, Catherine Marshall, uses foreshadowing in the book.

Essay Topic 3

Illegal alcohol running is a big part of the story.

Part 1: What characters seemed to be most impacted by the illegal making and trading of moonshine? In what ways were their lives altered?

Part 2: The mountain people made moonshine to earn a living, even though it was illegal. Do you agree or disagree with them trying to support their families that way? What are your reasons?

Part 3: Dr MacNeill warned the blockaders about the US Marshals. Explain why he did so and whether or not you would have done so, if you were in his place.

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