5. Make an outline that will show the principal divisions of the story. 6. Show that every division of the story is necessary. 7. Write an original story in which you transmute a real experience into a wonder story with a moral effect. THE SOUL OF THE GREAT BELL 1. How does the story show itself to be a legendary tale? 2. How is the simple story given movement and force? 3. Show how the interest is focussed on the bell rather than on the girl. 4. How does the author make the various sounds of the bell effective in the story? 5. Point out the poetic elements in the story. 6. Write, in poetic form, some legend of America, “The Indian Bride of Niagara,” for example. THE TEN TRAILS 1. Show in what way the story is highly condensed. 2. Expand any part of the story into the full form it might have if not told in the form of a fable. 3. How might the story have been told differently if it had not aimed at a moral? 4. When is it of advantage to write fables? 5. Write an original fable, no longer than _The Ten Trails_, about high school students. WHERE LOVE IS, THERE GOD IS ALSO 1. Make an outline that will show the structure of the story. 2. Why did the author have Avdeitch help more than one person? 3. Show how the use of realistic detail helps the story. 4. What characteristics make the story interesting? 5. Make a list of the epigrammatic expressions that occur in the story. How do they add to the effect? 6. What is the principal lesson taught by the story? 7. Compare this story with Eliot’s _Silas Marner_, Leigh Hunt’s _Abou Ben Adhem_, Lowell’s _The Vision of Sir Launfal_, Longfellow’s _The Legend Beautiful_, and Henry Van Dyke’s _The Other Wise Man_. 8. Write an allegorical story of some length, using realistic characters from daily life, leading to an effective climax, and presenting a high ideal of conduct. WOOD LADIES 1. Point out the different steps in the action. 2. What different persons take up the search? What is the effect of the constant additions to the number of searchers? 3. Why did the author have little children, five and seven years old, play principal parts? 4. Trace the emotions of the mother from the beginning of the story. 5. How did the mother, at different times, explain the child’s absence? 6. Why does the author narrate nothing that is impossible? 7. Point out passages that suggest the supernatural. 8. Tell the story of the little girl in the “greeny sort of dress.” 9. What is the effect of the setting? What gives occasional relief from the setting and thereby emphasizes it all the more?