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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. In Chapter 4, what did a midwife take when Briny did not pay her cash money?
2. In Chapter 6, when Miss Tann puts Rill and her siblings in the car, how many other children are on the floorboards?
3. What does Trent share with Avery in Chapter 11?
4. In Chapter 12, how long did it take Rill to learn that the kids at Miss Tanns's are Wards of the Tennessee Children's Home Society?
5. In Chapter 12, what is the name of the man whose wife reads to Fern at the party?
Short Essay Questions
1. At the end of Chapter 12, who was interested in Fern?
2. In Chapter 9, why has Honeybee asked the Monday Girls to not visit Grandma Judy?
3. Who does Avery have to pick up in Chapter 9, and why?
4. In Chapter 8, what did Rill see and smell when they entered the white house?
5. At the end of Chapter 8, what did a woman tell Rill and the children to do?
6. In Chapter 12, what happened when a man came to visit his little boy?
7. In Chapter 11, what was Wells' condition?
8. Who is Trent Turner, and what does Avery learn from him?
9. In Chapter 2, what did the midwife tell Rill to tell her father?
10. What happens to Rill and the other children in Chapter 6?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
On the boat and when they are kidnapped, Rill took care of her siblings. What is revealed about responsibility through Rill’s actions? What does that sense of responsibility reveal about Rill?
Essay Topic 2
After being kidnapped, Rill often felt powerless and hopeless. Why did Rill feel powerless after the kidnapping? How did that sense of powerlessness drive feelings of hopelessness?
Essay Topic 3
Avery thinks of a phrase “Life can turn on a dime” (95) to describe how her life and her grandmother’s life have changed over the past year. What does the phrase mean? What is revealed about life through the phrase? What does the phrase reveal about change?
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