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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 did Laura send from Rose for Manly to read?

2. What company owned the milk condensery that Laura toured?

3. Why was the musician Rose wrote about discharged from the Army?

4. Where was the Keen Kutter exhibit placed?

5. What did Laura send literature about to Manly about after her visit to the fair?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Laura describe the fog horns?

2. How did Rose introduce her mother to her friends, and how did Laura respond to this?

3. What did the editor say about Rolf Pelkie in a footnote?

4. What happened to make Rose afraid for her mother's safety?

5. What was the private letter about?

6. What injury did Laura incur while in San Francisco?

7. What did Laura think about the Kreislers?

8. What did Laura say about her life after seeing how hard Rose worked at her own job?

9. Why did Laura ask her husband to send all further mail to Rose's house?

10. Why did Rose tell her father she would keep her mother away from scones for a while?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was Laura's opinion of Gillette, and where did these ideas come from?

Essay Topic 2

How did Gillette deal with his finances, and how did this affect his standing with his family members?

Essay Topic 3

What was Laura's writing process, and how did she come to create this process for herself?

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