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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 1 when Avery and Wells go to a nursing home for a woman's birthday celebration, how old is the woman?
2. In Chapter 4, what did a midwife take when Briny did not pay her cash money?
3. In Chapter 6, when Miss Tann puts Rill and her siblings in the car, how many other children are on the floorboards?
4. What color was the house that Rill and the other children were taken to in Chapter 8?
5. What was the name of Grandma Judy's husband?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter 4, who came with Briny to help get Queenie to the hospital?
2. Who was the boy with Zede in Chapter 6, and what was he like?
3. Who does Avery have to pick up in Chapter 9, and why?
4. In Chapter 3, why does the nursing home contact Leslie, Wells Stafford's press secretary?
5. In Chapter 1, when Avery is at a nursing home with her father, what encounter does she have with a woman named May Crandall?
6. In Chapter 13, what does Trent tell Avery that his grandfather might have been doing for her grandmother?
7. At the end of Chapter 10, what did Rill do when a big red-headed boy told her to come with him?
8. In the Prelude, what did a doctor recommend to Christine's father?
9. At the end of Chapter 12, who was interested in Fern?
10. In Chapter 7, what does Grandma Judy say when she sees the photograph from May Crandall's room?
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
Hootsie and May did not get along when May first moved to the Seviers’ home. How would you describe the relationship between the two when May first moved to the Seviers’ home? How did their relationship change after May and Fern returned? How did their relationship change by the end of the novel, and why was there such a change?
Essay Topic 3
As Rill left the river for the last time, she realized that Rill had to die and May Weathers had to live. What experiences did Rill have that made her the person she was? Did her experiences made her stronger or weaker? Why did she decide Rill had to die and May had to live?
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