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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 does Moose meet Scout?

2. How does Moose feel when he wakes up in his clothes the first night in his new home?

3. What kind of lessons does Moose's mother teach?

4. What does Natalie have to do to get Moose to take her outside when she is in her swimsuit?

5. What does Father refuse to talk to Moose about?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Piper do when she first meets Moose?

2. Why does Natalie have to come home from school?

3. What does Natalie's therapist say about the box of buttons, and why?

4. How does Moose do in his first baseball game with his new schoolmates?

5. What lie does Mother tell about Natalie, and why?

6. Why does Moose go to Alcatraz?

7. What does Moose think about Natalie's new school and why?

8. What does Moose want to talk about while playing catch with his father, and how does his father react?

9. Why does Moose have to stop going to the baseball games?

10. What favor does the warden ask of Moose in their meeting?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What directions did Moose get from the warden, and what was so ironic in these instructions?

Essay Topic 2

How did people respond to Natalie's disability, and why do you think there was such a difference in these responses?

Essay Topic 3

Security and safety were two themes that were touched on a number of times throughout the course of this book. What are some of these instances, and how does this affect the characters in these scenes?

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