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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 Eve hear about the lake after the storm that upsets her and makes her afraid of the water?

2. Where does Evie finally find Jack as the storm preparations are happening?

3. Who goes to the great house to get food in Chapter 4?

4. How do Alycia's parents convince her to finally head for home with them?

5. What kind of skull does Evie and her friends find in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the provenance of the summer house, and how does Evie refer to the house?

2. What impresses, grudgingly, Evie about Alycia in Part I?

3. Why is Evie surprised one of the mothers at the house gave Jack a Bible?

4. What is the "magic hour" and how do the teenagers use it?

5. What does James ask Evie's group of teenagers about that confuses them, and Evie is the only one to admit this?

6. Why are Jack and Shel capturing animals in Chapter 3?

7. Why is Evie so alarmed to see what Kay does to Amy in Chapter 3?

8. Why are the parents in panic mode in Chapter 3?

9. How does the parents' behavior grow worse in the aftermath of the storm?

10. Why does Evie not participate in driving the tick-ridden deer from the yard?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which specific details and plot events of Millet's are the most effective in communicating the nature of the relationship between the parents and the teenagers throughout the novel? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

What do you think it means that the parents show up in response to Sukey's call about the soldiers holding the group hostage at the farm? How do the teenagers feel about the parents' arrival to "rescue" them? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What do you think Millet is trying to communicate to the reader about both individual and personal responsibility through the actions of both the parents and the teenagers? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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