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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. Who does Low claim he is related to?

2. What happens to the person who takes Eve out to the woods at gunpoint?

3. What does Evie tell Jack and Shel to do when the men with guns come?

4. What do the teenagers see on the farm that amazes them in Chapter 5?

5. What does the owner of the farm look like?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mattie convince Jack and Shel to let their trapped animals free?

2. What does Evie hear the trail angels debating in Chapter 6 that scares and confuses her?

3. What is one reason Evie and the teenagers like the trail angels?

4. What happens to Red when he takes Evie at gunpoint out in the woods?

5. What shocks the teenagers about Sukey's mother when she appears at the farm to collect Sukey?

6. What is the journey from the great house to the farm like in Chapter 5?

7. How does Sukey seem to react to having to care for her infant half-sister?

8. Who does Evie credit with saving them from the great house and leading them to the farm, and why?

9. What does Jack tell Darla he has figured out about the Bible in Chapter 7?

10. What natural phenomenon does Evie and the rest of the crew at the farm see in Chapter 5 that is highly unusual for that time of year and the location?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

How would you characterize Millet's description of the summer house in the first half of the novel? Why do you think she mentions it was built by robber barons in the nineteenth century, and what is the significance of this detail, as well as other details about its luxurious excess? Write an essay explaining your answers.

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