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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. Who does Rhett take with him to New Orleans?

2. What does Scarlett decide to do in order to save Tara?

3. What does Rhett notice that gives Scarlett's lies away?

4. To where do Ashley and Melanie move?

5. Who does Scarlett shun in Atlanta?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Wade and Ella experience that Rhett doesn't want to happen to Bonnie? What does he decide to do about it?

2. What does Rhett plot with Melanie about in Chapter 57?

3. What does Scarlett realize as she goes home through the thick fog?

4. What does Scarlett realize as Melanie is dying?

5. How is Scarlett's marriage to Rhett different than her previous two marriages?

6. Why do Scarlett and Rhett argue in Chapter 43?

7. How have Scarlett's feelings toward Ashley changed? What do India, Archie, and Mrs. Elsing see?

8. What does Rhett ask Scarlett after Frank's death? What is her response?

9. Why does Scarlett feel that she is different than other Southerners when she attends the Elsing wedding?

10. Why does Scarlett return to Tara in Chapter 39?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Gone with the Wind was written during an earlier time period and the topic of race relations is woven through the novel. Do you think that the novel is racist? Why or why not? Use evidence from the novel to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Scarlett and Melanie. How does Mitchell illustrate the Old and New South through these two women?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Ashley Wilkes with Rhett Butler. How does each of these men represent the South?

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