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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 is the name of the man who comes into Trent's real estate office in Chapter 11?

2. In Chapter 6 when Lark slips off and falls asleep in a clearing by a creek, how long does it take her family to find her?

3. 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?

4. In the Prelude, from where was the story told?

5. Where does Chapter 1 take place?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Trent Turner, and what does Avery learn from him?

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

3. In Chapter 11, what was Wells' condition?

4. In the Prelude, what did a doctor recommend to Christine's father?

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

6. In the Prelude, how is the woman described who had a still birth?

7. In Chapter 2, why was Rill worried?

8. In Chapter 5, what photo does Avery see in May Crandall's room, and why does the photograph interest her?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Avery is jealous when she watches people enjoying themselves on Edisto Island. What does Avery realize about choices and time when she is on Edisto Island? What conclusion does she come to about choices and time? Do choices affect the time a person has or does time affect the choices a person makes?

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