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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 he do with what he pulls from his pocket?

2. Who does Frannie and Daddy pass as they are leaving their building?

3. What had Frannie been thinking about that very morning?

4. Why is Trevor absent on the second day after the new boy arrives?

5. What time does Mama get up on Saturday?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Frannie and Samantha say about the fact that the new boy is white and Samantha's idea that he might be Jesus?

2. What does the new boy say when Frannie asks what it was like to live on the other side of the highway.

3. What is Frannie's mother's interpretation of the poem about hope, and what does Sean say about it?

4. What are some of the things Frannie says she would ask Jesus if she met Him?

5. What is the game Sean and Frannie sometimes play about sounds and give one example of their game.

6. What does Frannie say about their parents decision not to have an operation that might have made Sean hear and about what her mother sometimes does to Sean's ears?

7. What does Frannie discover when the new boy's father walks into the rec center and what are the reactions of Frannie and Trevor.

8. What does Frannie say about her memories of the year she'd started school a month late?

9. What does Frannie say about Trevor's appearance and what this means about his ethnicity?

10. How does Frannie describe the new boy's voice on his first morning in the class room, and why does the class react to it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Samantha come to believe about the new boy? Why does she believe this? What is the effect on Samantha when she realizes he isn't what she'd hoped for? What does Frannie say about Samantha's reaction?

Essay Topic 2

Who is Samantha? What is her relationship to Frannie? Who is Maribel? What is her relationship to Frannie? Compare Samantha and Maribel. Which character is most likable? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Frannie says that Sean taught her to speak and that she grew up "in his world of words." How might Frannie's life have been different without Sean's influence? Would her life have been better? Why or why not?

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