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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 12, what color dress does the woman wear who helps Rill find a book?

2. In Chapter 1 when Avery and Wells go to a nursing home for a woman's birthday celebration, how old is the woman?

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

4. In Chapter 10, what does Rill wish she could hear her father play?

5. In Chapter 9, where is Avery going to a ribbon-cutting ceremony with her parents?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who does Avery have to pick up in Chapter 9, and why?

6. In Chapter 1, who is Avery and what is background and career?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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?

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