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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 message does Phillip draw from his father's behavior in the car?
2. How does Lewis Shackleford view Mr. Carver?
3. When Phillip sees his father for the weekend getaway, how does Mr. Carver look?
4. Why do the Carvers move from Thornton to Nashville?
5. What is Phillip certain of in Chapter 8?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 9, both Phillip and Holly begin to understand their fathers and see them as people. Holly encourages them both to go beyond forgiveness and forgetting and aspire to true understanding. How does Phillip remember his father's life growing up?
2. In Chapter 10, why does George Carver move the family to Nashville when Phillip is five years old? Where does the family live? How does he establish himself and his family in town?
3. In Chapter 12, Phillip begins calling his father on a weekly basis. Why are those calls important to Phillip?
4. In Chapter 10, how does Lewis Shackleford see his friend, George Carver? What traits does he admire in his friend?
5. In Chapter 8, how does Phillip react to his sisters' actions? How does Alex react?
6. In Chapter 12, Phillip gives the four leaf clover pendant to Holly. How does she respond? What does Phillip know from her response?
7. In Chapter 9, Phillip explains the difference between his father and Alex Mercer as an important factor in their friendship. What is this difference?
8. What is Betsy's stated reason for Father not going to see Lewis Shackleford in Chapter 11? What is the real reason?
9. In Chapter 9, Phillip gives us a glimpse of Holly's life. How do we learn about Holly and how she fits into her family?
10. In Chapter 7, Phillip compares the life he knows in his father's house in Memphis and his apartment in New York. How do the two residences differ? How does Phillip feel about the contents of his family home in Memphis and the contents of his apartment?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Typically a four leaf clover is a symbol of good luck. In the novel, Phillip asks his mother for the four leaf clover pendant he sees on her dressing table. The pendant, however, does not bring luck to either Mother or Phillip. Discuss the pendant's history in the Carver family. How does the eventual recipient react to the pendent?
Essay Topic 2
Phillip realizes his father did not consider how the move to Memphis would affect all members of the family. Was the move to Memphis the only thing to affect the Carvers? Was there another factor at play, one much more dramatic than the move, that actually changed the course of everyone's lives?
Essay Topic 3
What is the climactic point in the novel? Is it believable? How does it change the action in the novel?
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