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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. Where are Peter and Cooper at the beginning of Chapter 18?
2. After the white church is destroyed, where do the white people go to pray?
3. At the end of Chapter 14 Peter receives his first pay check. How much is it?
4. What code does Peter use to describe Alabama?
5. When Mary Oliver receives word of the threat, what does she tell her sons to do?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is Peter torn between two destinations at the start of Chapter 23? Which state does he decide to go to?
2. In Chapter 13, Peter meets a sheriff. Describe their interaction.
3. In Chapters 15 and 16, Peter finds himself isolated from the men at work. What causes this rift?
4. Describe the altercation Peter is involved in during Chapter 24 and how it is resolved.
5. Describe the act of nature that occurs in Murphy in Chapter 17. How does Mary Elizabeth react?
6. What happens to Peter in the country store in Chapter 26?
7. Describe Governor Wallace and what Peter thinks about him in.
8. In Chapter 22 there is a terrible accident. Describe this event.
9. Describe Peter's relationship with Cooper.
10. Describe Peter's church experience while living with the Oliver family in Chapter 13.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Generosity is something that Peter both experiences and practices while on his journey. Cite three examples of where acts of generosity occur in A Walk Across America. How do these acts change both the person who is acting generously and the person who is on the receiving end? Do you think that Peter began his journey as a generous person or did he learn to be generous through his journey? Explain your reasoning with examples from the book.
Essay Topic 2
Peter has to make many choices in A Walk Across America. Describe three choices that Peter makes during the course of the book and how these decisions change the course of Peter's journey.
Essay Topic 3
Determine what you consider to be the climax of A Walk Across America. Describe the scene and use the definition of literary climax to argue that it is indeed the climax. If there was another possible event in A Walk Across America to be defined as the climax what would it be and why? Site examples from the text to prove your argument.
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