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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. Why are there no pictures of Lorena Adams Howland?
2. Where does Abner Carmichael live?
3. What looks like a choppy sea to Abigail?
4. What do people call "the bones of the earth," according to the author?
5. From whose viewpoint is the first Book of Abigail written.
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Lorena Adams.
2. What does the narrator mean when she says that the county will find out about her oldest daughters being sent away because "they always know everything"?
3. What does Aimee Legendre Howland have a craving for, and how does she meet this craving?
4. What memories does Abigail think of after she thinks the owl flies over the river?
5. Describe the still that William eventually finds.
6. Why is the November evening so quiet and final?
7. Immediately after Lorena's death, what plants does William notice?
8. In addition to the month being stated, what other clues about the season is the reader given in the first paragraph?
9. How does William live his life after the death of his wife and son?
10. What are Abigail's younger children doing as she stands on the porch?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the purpose of naming a child after a parent, in particular, naming sons after their fathers? When William Marshal Howland has a son, he is named only William Howland with the explanation that "his mother having come from ordinary people with no feeling for their name." Is naming of children tied to class or status?
Essay Topic 2
At the end of the first section, Abigail admits that if she were to be honest, she would wish that Robert weren't alive. Discuss this statement. Does this make Abigail evil?
Essay Topic 3
In reciting the history of the Howlands, deaths are treated matter-of-factly and with little emotion. While the scene of Lorena's death carries little emotion, it is described with great detail. Why is this significant?
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