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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 does Zorrie drink during her pregnancy?

2. Where is one of Zorrie's friends from the factory originally from?

3. Where does Zorrie get a ride to on a seed-delivery truck?

4. Where does Zorrie fall asleep more than once after Gus and Bessie pass away?

5. What happens to Virgil in Part II?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hunt describe Zorrie's work ethic?

2. What do the women at the factory do with the radium in their free time?

3. Early in Part II, what great news do Zorrie and Harold share with Gus and Bessie?

4. In Part I, what does Zorrie notice as a difference in the way she feels while working?

5. What does Zorrie dream about right after Harold's funeral service?

6. What does Zorrie seem to think of the community's treatment of the topic of miscarriage?

7. What does Zorrie do soon after Gus and Bessie die?

8. What feeling does Zorrie have that alarms herself at the summer picnic in Part I?

9. How does Harold die in the war?

10. What tragedy does Zorrie learn about in Noah's life in Part II?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Zorrie earn the nickname "Ghost Girl," and what do you think Hunt is trying to tell the readers about Zorrie with this moniker? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

How does Laird use examples of Zorrie's work ethic to help develop her character in the novel's early stages? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

Why and how does Zorrie eventually decide to express her decades-long yearning and affection for Noah? What happens in the aftermath of this expression? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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