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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 Sara feed to the swans?

2. What does Charlie know?

3. Who turns Charlie around when he starts to walk away after getting upset on Mary's porch?

4. When was the place Charlie goes after his sucker is fixed made?

5. What is Sara doing at the beginning of the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Charlie do when he is asked the time, and why?

2. What does not give Charlie comfort in the woods, and why does this upset him so?

3. What is Charlie so anxious about at the beginning of the book?

4. What does Sara do and say when she sees what is making Charlie so anxious at the beginning of the book?

5. What happens when Charlie gets bothered by the rocking chairs on Mary's porch?

6. What does Willie say to Sara after Wanda leaves on her date, and what is Sara's response to this?

7. What does Wanda say Aunt Willie never lets her do?

8. What does Charlie do when he gets nervous?

9. Why is Charlie's foot so sore while he is in the woods?

10. What does Mary say to Sara when Sara is searching for Charlie at the lake?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Personal identity was one of the main themes in this book. Where did this theme appear, and how did its inclusion in the novel shape the course of the plot?

Essay Topic 2

Despair was a theme that was placed in a number of sensitive places in this plot. What are some of these places, and what role did despair play in this book?

Essay Topic 3

Sara presented a very interesting and unique philosophy on beauty. What was this philosophy, and how did this different idealism affect the people around her?

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