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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. When the bookmobile comes in Chapter 12, how many books is Rill allowed to get?
2. In Chapter 2, how old does May remember she was when she was on the deck of a shantyboat?
3. At the end of Chapter 10, what color is the hair of the boy who tells Rill not to let Riggs get her off by herself?
4. In Chapter 6, where are the children first taken?
5. In Chapter 8, what grade did Rill remember that Lark would be in in the fall?
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. In Chapter 8, what did Rill see and smell when they entered the white house?
3. In Chapter 13, what did Avery's uncle Clifford say about going to Edisto Island?
4. Who was the boy with Zede in Chapter 6, and what was he like?
5. In Chapter 5, what photo does Avery see in May Crandall's room, and why does the photograph interest her?
6. In Chapter 9, why has Honeybee asked the Monday Girls to not visit Grandma Judy?
7. In Chapter 2, why was Rill worried?
8. In Chapter 3, why does the nursing home contact Leslie, Wells Stafford's press secretary?
9. What happens to Rill and the other children in Chapter 6?
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
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
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 3
May used an analogy to describe life and the various stages of life as different types of music for dancing. What was the analogy that May used to compare music and life? How did she learn to find the music in her life? Why was it important to dance to the right music at various times of a person’s life?
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