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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 Annie's observation when she sees the dead girl who is her own age?

2. Annie and her Chapter 4 friend begin exchanging hard pinches and...

3. Who are the two girls Annie befriends at her new school in Chapter 2?

4. What happens to Annie's Chapter 4 friend?

5. What does the teacher do with Annie's essay in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. What inspires Annie to pen the words that get her in trouble in Chapter 5?

2. What does Annie fib about in Chapter 1 and why?

3. What does Mrs. John's trunk hold now and where is it kept?

4. How do the other girls feel about Annie when they learn she has begun to menstruate?

5. Annie dreams that she saves the Red Girl from a ship wreck and they live on an island together forever. What do they do for fun on the island?

6. Why does Annie look forward to starting a new school in Chapter 2?

7. What is Annie's main symptom at the beginning of Chapter 7?

8. Why does Annie say she likes to sit at the front of the class?

9. What things does Annie get sent out of the house to learn when she starts to become a lady in Chapter 2?

10. In Chapter 4, how does Annie's mother feel about Annie playing marbles at school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the significance of Gwen in the novel? How does her role change over the course of the story?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the importance of water throughout the novel.

Essay Topic 3

What is the significance of The Red Girl to the story? She appears in only one chapter of the novel. How might the novel have differed if she had not been introduced as a minor character?

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