View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Wells Stafford in Chapter 1?

2. In Chapter 6, when Miss Tann puts Rill and her siblings in the car, how many other children are on the floorboards?

3. In Chapter 7, what time does Avery arrive at Magnolia Manor?

4. Where has Grandma Judy gone to church all her life?

5. What was the name of Grandma Judy's husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 7, how does Avery remember that her parents met?

2. In Chapter 13, what does Trent tell Avery that his grandfather might have been doing for her grandmother?

3. At the end of Chapter 8, what did a woman tell Rill and the children to do?

4. In Chapter 8, what did Rill see and smell when they entered the white house?

5. In Chapter 2, what did the midwife tell Rill to tell her father?

6. At the end of Chapter 10, what did Rill do when a big red-headed boy told her to come with him?

7. At the end of Chapter 12, who was interested in Fern?

8. Who was the boy with Zede in Chapter 6, and what was he like?

9. In Chapter 13, what did Avery's uncle Clifford say about going to Edisto Island?

10. In Chapter 3, why does the nursing home contact Leslie, Wells Stafford's press secretary?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the novel, some characters are more thoroughly described than others. Who are some characters that are merely named in passing or have a minor role in the novel? What is the importance of these flat characters to the story line? In what way do these characters make the main characters more colorful or interesting? How do they provide background information or advance the plot? When there is conflict, what type of role do these flat characters play?

Essay Topic 2

Both the Seviers and the girls were in need of rescue. Why were both the Seviers and the girls in need of rescue? How did they help rescue one another? What is revealed about the interdependence they had for one another through the ways that they rescued one another?

Essay Topic 3

Each of the remaining sisters had dragonfly bracelets. What did the bracelets mean to the sisters and remind them of? What did they symbolize to May and Grandma Judy?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 829 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample