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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. How are students at Margaret's new school assigned to classrooms?

2. What does Margaret do after she talks to her mother about her first day of school?

3. Why is Mrs. Simon nervous as she drives on the highway?

4. Where is the Simon family moving from?

5. What does Janie think the point of Mr. Benedict's assignment is?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Mr. Benedict rearrange the desks in a U-shape?

2. Does Margaret experience what she thought she would at temple?

3. Why is Margaret scared?

4. How might Mr. Benedict have known how to grade the tests without names on them?

5. Why does Margaret tell Janie she is buying winter pajamas?

6. Describe Nancy's relationship with her brother.

7. Why isn't Margaret afraid to answer the door?

8. Why does Mr. Benedict keep Margaret after school?

9. Why does Margaret think her grandmother won't visit her in New Jersey?

10. Why does Nancy think Janice is a prude?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do the parents influence their children in the novel? How do their actions help or hurt their children as they go through adolescence?

Essay Topic 2

How does Mr. Benedict do in his first year as a teacher? What are his triumphs? What are his challenges?

Essay Topic 3

Why might Nancy want to be part of a secret club? Why does she care so much about body and religious issues? What does Nancy value?

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