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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 event in Taylor's life influences her to leave home?

2. Lou Ann's husband leaves her on which holiday?

3. Where does Chapter 3 take place?

4. What makes Lou Ann's heart lurch?

5. What name does Lou Ann believe is Turtle's birth name?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Lou Ann avoid Lee Sing's market? Explain.

2. How does Taylor feel about taking the food and drink from Mattie?

3. What pops into Taylor's head when a priest comes to visit Mattie in Chapter 6? Explain this situation.

4. How does Taylor obtain newspapers?

5. Describe Taylor's first meeting with Lou Ann.

6. What is the significance of the Tug Fork water?

7. Describe the conversation between Mattie and Taylor in Chapter 13, regarding Esteban and Esperanza.

8. What is Lou Ann's reaction to the adoption situation that takes place in Chapter 13?

9. What does Lou Ann constantly show her mother regarding Mexican Americans? Why does Lou Ann do this?

10. What does Mattie give to Taylor and Turtle at the beginning of Chapter 3? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 11, the reader sees a change in Lou Ann's character. She tells Taylor of a dream that she has. An angel comes to her and tells her that Dwayne Ray will not live to see the year 2000. Lou Ann also reads her horoscope that says she will take advice from a stranger. Lou Ann believes that this stranger is the angel. What do you believe to be the significance of these events?

Essay Topic 2

Turtle facilitates many changes in Taylor's character throughout the novel, yet Turtle herself is not a highly developed character. Why do you think this is? Could Turtle be a representative for something else? If so, what?

Essay Topic 3

At the close of Chapter 4, Bobby Bingo, a vegetable salesman warns Lou Ann, telling her "Whatever you want the most, it's going to be the worst thing for you." What does Bobby mean by this comment? What is the thing Lou Ann wants the most? And why would that be bad for her?

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