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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 is the name of Wren's mother?

2. What was the temperature at 4 p.m.?

3. How old was Wren when Hugh took her to fix a little dock behind Bex's property?

4. How long was Joy in foster care?

5. Who are the first allowed to leave the Center?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Joy end up in foster care?

2. Why was Beth under arrest in a hospital?

3. Why did Bex take Wren to the Center?

4. What did Hugh remember happened when Wren was two?

5. What has caused places like the Center to go out of business?

6. Why did Janine use her brother as an example against abortion?

7. Why did Louie Ward become an obstetrician?

8. What did George's pastor have to say about him?

9. Why did Wren's father never go into space?

10. What happened when George Goddard was five?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Olive takes a bullet for Wren. What type of person is Olive? Why does she take a bullet intended for Wren? What does her character reveal about sacrifice?

Essay Topic 2

Hugh might be considered a hero for ending the standoff. Why does Wren think her father is a hero at the standoff and in life? What does Wren understand about heroes? What does the author imply makes a hero?

Essay Topic 3

Wren thinks of herself as a woman when she decides to have sex and get birth control. In what ways is Wren still a little girl? How does Wren realize what makes an adult? Why does she realize it is not sex? What does she realize makes an adult?

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