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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 the name of the family at the house?

2. What is the name of Rosalind's son?

3. What is the name of the person who dotes on Lily?

4. What is the name of Roz's new husband?

5. Which word does Harper use to describe Hayley when she was pregnant?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Hayley feel guilty about her attraction to Harper?

2. What traumatic event has happened to the woman?

3. What occurs when Hayley and Lily visit Harper at the carriage house?

4. Discuss Hayley's personality.

5. Examine the incident with Amelia during the storm.

6. What are Harper's thoughts about Hayley? What are Hayley's thoughts about Harper?

7. What happens when Amelia arrives at Harper House?

8. Who is David? What is his advice to Hayley?

9. What wakes Hayley? What strange event occurs?

10. Discuss the conversation held between Hayley and Stella in Stella's kitchen.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Nora Roberts is well known as a prolific and successful author of many series and novels. Read a biography on Nora Roberts. Learn about her life, career as a writer, etc. Create a character description as if Roberts was one of her own characters. How might Roberts portray herself in a novel? Would she be a detective, villain, or victim? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the relationship between Amelia and Reginald. Did Reginald have any legal ties to Amelia? Did Reginald commit a crime by taking the baby? What legal recourse would Amelia have? How did the relationship begin and end? What did Beatrice say about it?

Essay Topic 3

Hayley is a 26 year old woman that has arrived in Memphis to work with her distant cousin, Roz Harper Ashby. Write a complete character description of Hayley. Include Hayley's past, her connection to Amelia Connor, and her position at Harper House. Include her relationships with Harper, Stella, and Roz.

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