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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. The band down the street is composed of how many middle school students?

2. What is NOT something at which Samar often gazes during her nighttime visits with Red?

3. What positive act do woodpeckers perform for Red?

4. Red states that what kind of animals name themselves upon the completion of their first flight?

5. The narrator states that the sycamore tree down the street regularly indulges in what habit?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the theme of tranquility included within Red's introduction of Samar to the reader?

2. What happens every year on Wishing Day?

3. What aspect of Red's provision of shelter is unprecedented the year that is depicted in the narrative?

4. Red explains that hollows in trees occur for all sorts of reasons. Name five.

5. At what three sights does Samar often gaze as she sits beneath Red's boughs?

6. How does Red surmise that the carving by the lanky boy is "meant to hurt" (43)?

7. Which character moves forward most of the action in the novel Wishtree and how?

8. For what reason does Red call Samar a "visitor" (27)?

9. In what parts of the world do people observe a tradition involving a wishing tree?

10. In what way is the sound motif an important element of Chapter 10?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Applegate’s use of metaphor, simile, imagery, and other literary devices as a means to send particular thematic messages within the narrative of Wishtree.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how and why Applegate instills three different humanist messages into the narrative of Wishtree.

Essay Topic 3

What message does Applegate send within the pages of Wishtree concerning the link between fear and persecution?

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