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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 is Cathy worried will happen after looking at a book in her mother's room?

2. What does Chris overhear his grandmother saying about punishing the children while praying?

3. What do Chris and Cathy overhear someone saying the Mother's relationship with her date is, during the Christmas party?

4. What does Chris find his grandmother doing when he looks for valuables before escaping?

5. What is the title of Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Chris and Cathy's first kiss described in the book?

2. What happens when Cathy falls and cuts herself with scissors?

3. What happens when grandmother finds Chris in front of a window in Chapter 15?

4. What kind of book does Cathy find in her mother's room in Chapter 18?

5. How does the Mother discuss menstruation with Cathy in the book?

6. What does Chris learn about his mother from John Amos at the end of Chapter 20?

7. How does Cory come to have a pet mouse?

8. How does Chris describe their mother's bedroom to Cathy?

9. What do the children realize is the reason their mother hasn't visited them in a month in Chapter 18?

10. How is Bartholomew Winslow first described in the book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the portrayal of idolization in the book. What reason does Chris have for idolizing his mother and Cathy to such an extreme degree in the book?

Essay Topic 2

Wealth is an important theme throughout much of the book and controls how many of the characters act. Part 1.) What role does money play in the mother's life and why does she appear to need it so badly? Part 2.) How does the grandmother use her wealth as a way of controlling the Mother and the children? Part 3.) Based on the impact wealth plays in the lives of the book's characters, what conclusion might the author want the reader to come to regarding the nature of wealth?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the concept of escape that is presented in the book. Why did the children choose to stay in their prison for so long, despite being able to escape rather easily?

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