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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 Joey have a key to?

2. Why is Joey not allowed to carve pumpkins with the kids in his class?

3. What kind of teacher is Mrs. Howard?

4. What did Grandma used to pretend to be to please Joey?

5. Why is Joey sent to the nurse's office for the day his key is recovered?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Joey given when he is denied a piece of pie?

2. What does Joey's mother get upset about after Harold's party?

3. What does Joey do when he is asked to sharpen pencils?

4. Where did Joey's grandmother go, and how does she feel about it?

5. Why did Joey blow out Harold's candles?

6. What does Joey sense from the mothers in the Special Education room?

7. What does Joey do when he gets bored with the Big Quiet Chair?

8. Why is Joey sent to Special Education classes?

9. Why did Joey's grandmother choose to leave?

10. What does Joey wish he could be?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Abandonment and Neglect was a major theme in this book. What are some of the main examples of this theme, and how did it affect the course of the plot.

Essay Topic 2

Which character did you relate with the most in this book? Why is this? How did this character change throughout the book?

Essay Topic 3

What did Joey's dog symbolize, and why was it so important for Joey to get a dog?

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