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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 color are Camellia's eyes?

2. In Chapter 4, what was Queenie wearing when Briny got her ready to go to the hospital?

3. Where does Trent Turner, Jr., live?

4. Where was Avery working before she came home to help her mother deal with her father's cancer?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 3, why does the nursing home contact Leslie, Wells Stafford's press secretary?

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

4. At the end of Chapter 12, who was interested in Fern?

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 Chapter 2, why was Rill worried?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

In the novel, some characters are more thoroughly described than others. Who are some characters that are merely named in passing or have a minor role in the novel? What is the importance of these flat characters to the story line? In what way do these characters make the main characters more colorful or interesting? How do they provide background information or advance the plot? When there is conflict, what type of role do these flat characters play?

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