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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 Evie do with Amy after Amy's injury?

2. What does James ask the teenagers that they are confused about in Chapter 2?

3. Which of the teenagers actually leaves the house for weeks at a time?

4. Where do Evie and Jack live when they are not renting the great house?

5. Who tells Alycia's parents exactly where she has gone in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Shel handcuff himself to the treehouse?

2. Why do Evie and some of the other teenagers go swimming in the storm water at the parents' request?

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

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

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

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

7. Why do the teenagers run away with Burl?

8. Why is David feeling so guilty about sabotaging the yacht in Chapter 3?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why do you think Millet chooses to leave the question of where the parents go in the very end of the novel - and why they leave - very ambiguous? Write an essay explaining your answers.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

What does Terry's overture to the soldiers and the Governor reveal about the teenagers' skills, independence, and/or frame of reference? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your answers.

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