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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. At the end of Chapter 8, what was the next activity for Rill and the other children?

2. What language does May remember her mother would whisper sometimes?

3. In Chapter 6, which of the children nearly escapes?

4. What time does Avery call Trent after discovering her grandmother's typewriter in Chapter 13?

5. In Chapter 2, when May remembers sitting on a shantyboat as a young girl, what child was her mother in labor with?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 9, why has Honeybee asked the Monday Girls to not visit Grandma Judy?

2. In Chapter 10, who did Rill see come into the room where she and her siblings were sleeping, and what did he do?

3. In Chapter 10, where were Rill and her siblings sleeping and what was it like?

4. In Chapter 4, who came with Briny to help get Queenie to the hospital?

5. In Chapter 7, what does Grandma Judy say when she sees the photograph from May Crandall's room?

6. In Chapter 1, when Avery is at a nursing home with her father, what encounter does she have with a woman named May Crandall?

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

8. What happens to Rill and the other children in Chapter 6?

9. In Chapter 2, why was Rill worried?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The story is told from the first person point of view and from the point of view of different narrators. How does using different narrators affect what can be told about characters? How does the author’s choice to use different narrators and the first person impact the plot and how readers view characters?

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

May used an analogy to describe life and the various stages of life as different types of music for dancing. What was the analogy that May used to compare music and life? How did she learn to find the music in her life? Why was it important to dance to the right music at various times of a person’s life?

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