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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 can the citizens of Atlanta hear when the Union troops are twenty miles away?
2. Where is Ashley held prisoner?
3. Where does Scarlett go to volunteer with Aunt Pittypat?
4. What have the Yankees done to Tara?
5. Charles died how long after he and Scarlett married?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Scarlett's family send her to Atlanta?
2. What is the situation in Atlanta like as the Yankees draw closer in Chapter 18? How does Scarlett feel about the situation?
3. How do the first three chapters of the novel portray Scarlett O'Hara? What adjective would you use to describe her? Provide evidence from the novel for your answer.
4. How is the war affecting Atlanta in 1864? What personal challenge does it give to Scarlett, Melanie, and those around them?
5. Why did Melanie speak to Belle Watling in Chapter 13? Why is she reprimanded for this?
6. What is life like at Tara after the Yankees leave? What does Frank Kennedy confide to Scarlett about the war?
7. How does Rhett feel about the war? Why does he run the blockade?
8. What does Scarlett find when she arrives at Tara after the birth of Melanie's baby?
9. Why do you think Scarlett flees from the hospital in Chapter 17?
10. How does Melanie and Scarlett's relationship begin to change in Chapters 26 and 27? What events bind them together?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is the South transformed by the Civil War, according to Mitchell? Do you think her portrayal of the Old and New South are accurate?
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast Ashley Wilkes with Rhett Butler. How does each of these men represent the South?
Essay Topic 3
Why did Scarlett lease convicts for the mill instead of hiring freed blacks? What opposing views did Scarlett hear? Do you think she was right or wrong in her decision?
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