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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 was the name of the farmhand helping Manly?
2. What kind of arrangement did Bess know her husband would like to see?
3. Which of the following was not a place where Gillette was considering taking a job?
4. What did Berta do for Laura?
5. What did Laura write her account of the milk condensery on?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the only negative comment Laura made about Gillette?
2. Why did Rose tell her father she would keep her mother away from scones for a while?
3. What did Laura assure Almanzo of at the end of her letter about finances?
4. What did Rose say in a postcard about the dog show she and Laura went to?
5. How did Rose introduce her mother to her friends, and how did Laura respond to this?
6. Why did Laura mark one of her letters as private?
7. What did the editor say about Rolf Pelkie in a footnote?
8. What did Laura take time to describe from the wood exhibit at the Fair, and why?
9. What did Laura say was her main reason for taking the trip to San Francsico?
10. What injury did Laura incur while in San Francisco?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What did the title of this book mean? How was it significant to Laura's life and writings?
Essay Topic 2
How did Rose show her ambitious spirit, and what did her parents think of this?
Essay Topic 3
Why did Laura and Rose have such a strong bond, and how did this relationship change Rose's life?
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