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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 Mama call the library?
2. Why was Frannie's sister named Lila?
3. Why does the boy say he first signed to Frannie?
4. What does the boy say is the reason he and his family left their home on the other side of the highway?
5. What's Frannie's chore after dinner?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Frannie say about Trevor's appearance and what this means about his ethnicity?
2. What does Frannie argue when Samantha says that Jesus might have chosen to come to Price at this time because there's a war going on?
3. What does Frannie say about miracles and what is the miracle that happens in her own life?
4. What do Sean, Frannie and Mama do on Saturday morning?
5. Describe the conversation between Frannie and the girls who are watching Sean play basketball.
6. Describe the conversation between Sean and Frannie as they begin cooking dinner.
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 remember about the baby that didn't "thrive", and what is another memory of someone using that word?
10. What does the new boy reveal about himself, where his family had been prior to his arrival at Price, and why he'd moved to Price?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe Frannie. What kind of person is she? What are the most important aspects of her life? Why are these important?
Essay Topic 2
Samantha asks Frannie why she rushed to help Trevor up after he fell in the school yard. What is Samantha's response and what does she mean by this? Why is Frannie skeptical that this could really be Frannie's motivation? Is Frannie right?
Essay Topic 3
When Trevor is picking on the new boy about being white, the boy counters, saying that Trevor obviously has a white father who lives on the other side of the highway. Was the new boy right to strike Trevor in a way that was so hurtful? Why or why not?
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