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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 are Amanda's feelings while watching Clement swim?

2. What will Amanda not allow Carl to do?

3. What causes Amanda to become worried in Part 2, Chapter 12?

4. Whose influence does Ruth want to be free of?

5. For whom does Ruth begin to have feelings?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss Carl's trip to Clement's carriage house.

2. Discuss the plan Mathilda concocts involving Amanda and her pregnancy.

3. What does Amanda yell to Clement while they are on the lake? What does Amanda do after yelling to Clement?

4. Describe the letter that Ruth writes to Imogene.

5. What happens at the new dance pavilion?

6. Discuss Amanda's trip to Clements.

7. Why doesn't Ruth go to Chicago with Imogene as planned?

8. What does Ruth learn about Imogene?

9. What happens when Amanda goes into labor?

10. Discuss the relationship between Imogene, Arthur, and Ruth.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the relationship between Amanda and Clement throughout the story. Why does Amanda end up hating him when she once loved him?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the friendship between Ruth and Imogene and the effect it has on each of them as well as those around them.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the genre of "Drowning Ruth." Cite at least three examples from the story that cause the book to be categorized in this particular genre.

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