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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 the Prelude, what is the name of the woman who has a still birth?

2. What does Trent share with Avery in Chapter 11?

3. What does Rill smell in Chapter 10, when a man comes into the room where she and her siblings are sleeping?

4. Where has Grandma Judy gone to church all her life?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 12, what happened when a man came to visit his little boy?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What happens when Avery tries to intimidate Trent into giving her the envelope at the end of Chapter 11?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Miss Tann seems to be a woman driven by greed. What seems to be the reason why Miss Tann kidnaps children and adopts them to well-to-do families? What is revealed about deception and greed through her actions?

Essay Topic 3

Each of the remaining sisters had dragonfly bracelets. What did the bracelets mean to the sisters and remind them of? What did they symbolize to May and Grandma Judy?

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