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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 position does Henry play in the kickball games in physical education class?

2. What happens to Henry in confession?

3. Of what is Henry's first memory?

4. Where did Henry's grandmother live?

5. What does Henry's father do when he arrives at the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Henry and Stanley agree upon that happens at school?

2. Though Big Henry and Katherine have been married for a number of years, what new information did Katherine learn about her husband?

3. Why do Henry and Frank make a break and run away from the man who picked them up and drove them to the air show?

4. What does Henry talk about in relation to the boys at his grammar school?

5. What happens at the pool that causes Red to move away from Henry without a word of goodbye?

6. After Henry learns about sex from one of his friends, what does he say repulses him about the idea of sex?

7. How does Henry feel after the beating from his father and what actions does he take?

8. What intrigues the group of boys about the spider and how is it ruined for them?

9. When Frank moves away with his mother what does he send back to Henry that they continue to exchange for awhile?

10. What happens between Mr. Knox and Henry when Henry is sent to the principal's office for fighting?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about how Henry's destruction of the spider web is really him lashing out against his own entrapment. Why do you believe this is or is not the case? Be sure to use examples from the text to support your answers. Do you believe Henry is justified in wanting to lash out? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay comparing your school experience to that of Henry. In what ways are they the same? In what ways are they different? Which do you prefer the one you have or that of Henry? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Henry often wants to do the right thing in the novel, but is unable to do it. Write about at least one example of this in the novel and be sure to describe the reaction Henry wants to complete but does not. What would you do in the same situation? Why?

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