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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 does Red do after she sees the Pleiades above her tornado?

2. How did Wanda get tickets for her and Red in Chapter 42?

3. At the end of Chapter 44, what is the name of the Guatemalan volcano Red writes about?

4. In Chapter 53, what time does Red call Wanda?

5. What does Wanda say the pills are for that Red finds in her car?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Wanda meet at the aquarium and why does Red get upset?

2. Why dioes Red go to stay with the Klines after Celine is taken to the hospital?

3. In Chapter 51, what is wrong when Jackson and Red return from the Kapules'?

4. What conversation do Red and Wanda have in Chapter 44 when Red says she wants to live with her mom?

5. What happens to ruin an outing in early February where Red was going to go to a movie with her mother?

6. What does Red remembered happened when she was five and her grandmother did not want her to go with her mother?

7. In Chapter 45, how has Red been practicing with her wind and what progress is she making?

8. How does Red play ball with Gandalf, and how does she feel afterward?

9. Why does Red ask Jackson to take her to Marvin's in Chapter 51?

10. What happens when Red is in the barn with the twins?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in All The Impossible Things? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and characters? How does it help readers connect with and understand characters, especially Red?

Essay Topic 2

The climax in a novel is the highest point of tension and a turning point. What is the climax of All the Impossible Things and why is that incident the climax?

Essay Topic 3

Artistic license is the way that an author creates, art, music, or writing based upon her interpretation of life. How does Lackey use artistic license to create the realistic background of All the Impossible Things? Even with the magical elements, does the story almost seem as though it might have happened?

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