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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. What is Polly's last name?
(a) Bay.
(b) Shay.
(c) Bray.
(d) Day.

2. What does the spinster see written on the sidewalk?
(a) I love Marigold.
(b) I love you.
(c) I love someone.
(d) Someone loves me.

3. What is Emily trying to do in her story?
(a) Take photographs.
(b) Read.
(c) Draw.
(d) Write.

4. What does Emily get caught doing?
(a) Hiding from her parents.
(b) Skipping curfew.
(c) Stealing.
(d) Running away.

5. What is Ella afraid of?
(a) Wild animals.
(b) Horseback riding.
(c) Taking care of children.
(d) The dark.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the final location that Emily chooses to read at?

2. What do Beatrice and her fiance do the night before they are to be married?

3. What is the name of Beatrice's third fiance?

4. What is Lottie's last name?

5. What does Ella focus on while sitting in the parlor babysitting?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the spinster's final feelings about the "I love someone" written on the sidewalk?

2. What does Angelica believe her purpose in life is?

3. How does the title of the story, "The Liberation", tie in with Polly's story?

4. What lesson does Emily learn from Lottie?

5. Is the abuse against Hannah indirect or direct? How?

6. How does Judy realize her love for Rod, her fiance?

7. What is the community reaction to Emily getting the evangelists kicked out of town, and why?

8. How does Mrs. Ramsey's story represent the difference between the old and the new?

9. Why does Judy think that her happiest day was the day in the mountains?

10. How is anonymity a theme in "The Philosophy Lesson"?

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