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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. How does Tomie mark time as a child?

2. Who calms Tomie down when he gets upset when the walls are finished?

3. When does Tomie's father want to work on the back yard?

4. What warning does Tomie give when he takes someone to see the Disney movie?

5. How many grandmothers does Tomie have?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the city do all along Fairmount Avenue?

2. Why does Tomie talk so much about the building of his new house?

3. What does Tomie's mother do for Carol Crane at the beginning of the book?

4. What caused the long delay in the building of the house?

5. What is Tomie's favorite thing to in his spare time?

6. What saves Tomie's house from the hurricane?

7. How does Tomie feel about his heritage?

8. What strange and religious habit does Tomie's mother have?

9. How does Tomie find out about the natural disaster at the beginning of the book?

10. What does Tomie add to the walls before they are finished?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What emphasis did Tomie put on movies, and why?

Essay Topic 2

What are some of the ways Tomie's family showed their love to each other, and how did these displays alter the course of the plot?

Essay Topic 3

How do Tomie's parents show their anger, and how does this change the way Tomie deals with his own anger?

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