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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. Why do the parents say they can not leave the great house in Chapter 4?

2. How does Evie refer to the house the parents have rented for the summer?

3. What do the teenagers call the weed that James offers them?

4. Where do the teenagers decamp from the house to in Chapter 2?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the parent game and why is it important to the teenagers?

2. Why do the teenagers run away with Burl?

3. What do the parents spend most of their time doing in Part I?

4. What does Evie wrestle with telling Jack in Part I?

5. Who do the teenagers meet when they take off for the island for a few days?

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

7. What does Burl think is particularly dangerous that they all see around the great house in the days after the storm?

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

9. Why does Evie decide to get the teenagers' phones back?

10. Why do the parents refuse to leave when the teenagers ask them to, in the aftermath of the storm?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Which characters in the novel are the most forgiving of others in their lives, and why? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

Why does David decide to sabotage the yacht's navigational device, and what plot development makes this news much more serious? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 3

What happens to Sukey's mother about halfway through the novel, and why does it seem to serve as a type of turning point in the action of the novel and in the lives of the assembled teenagers? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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