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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 is Jennet?

2. What is Will's surname?

3. What does Joan name her child?

4. What is Jane actually talking to Reese about?

5. What name does Jane call Alyce instead of Alyce?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 13, what does Alyce tell Will when he asks why she left the village? What does he say to encourage her?

2. What does Alyce discover about herself in Chapter 15?

3. Why does Jane tell Alyce to take over at Joan's delivery?

4. How does Reese communicate with and teach Alyce at first?

5. Whom does Alyce begin working for in Chapter 12?

6. Who comes to the village looking for Alyce in Chapter 11 and why?

7. What name does the small boy Alyce meets in Chapter 10 decide to take?

8. What happens when Alyce arrives to help Emma Blunt give birth?

9. What does Alyce finally find out about Edward in Chapter 14?

10. What does Jane think when Matthew arrives looking for Alyce in Chapter 11?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the genre of the novel? What are elements commonly found in this type of novel? What are some other examples of works of this genre? What similarities do these works share with the novel "The Midwife's Apprentice"?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and interpret the secondary characters of the novel. Who are they and what are their defining character traits? How are they related to Alyce? What is their role in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Alyce's character growth throughout the novel. How does her character compare from when the reader is first introduced to her to when the novel concludes? What events or people in her life prompt Alyce's growth?

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