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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 happens one day when Natalie parks her wheelchair?

2. What school do Dreenie and Willie attend?

3. What happens when Bluish gets upset that day in class?

4. For what does Dreenie long?

5. Why does Dreenie hang around with Tuli?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Dreenie's best friend, what does she do to impress people and what sent her sobbing to the bathroom?

2. What does Dreenie notice about Bluish's attendance in school?

3. What is Tuli like when Dreenie and Willie meet her on the street, why might she be like that and what is one of her favorite phrases?

4. What does Tuli want to do at Dreenie's house, how does Dreenie feel about that and what does Dreenie want in a friend?

5. What does Dreenie convince her mother to let her do about her father?

6. What does Tuli do when she sees Dreenie and Willie on the street and what happens?

7. How does Dreenie respond to Bluish's question, and how does she feel about her response later?

8. What does Dreenie say is the reason she is writing a journal and what does she admire about Bluish?

9. What does Bluish do at school and what does she ask Dreenie? How does Dreenie mistake her question?

10. What does Dreenie think she is and how does she feel about her sister's status with others? Where do they go to school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Bluish and Dreenie share an emotional moment with the Blue Morpho butterfly, continues the notion that beauty can come from ugliness. Just like the lowly caterpillar can undergo a dramatic transformation into a beautiful butterfly, Bluish can emerge from this dark point in her life to "take flight" like the butterfly and emerge stronger and more beautiful than she was prior to the cancer.

1. Discuss how Bluish's situation from the beginning of the book to the end could be compared to the transformation of a caterpillar to a butterfly. Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

2. Do you think that everyone can emerge from a dark situation in his or her life and emerge stronger? Why or why not? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. Unfortunately, there are some children who are abused in this world. Some of those children grow up to be kind and loving adults while some become bitter and even violent. Why do you think this is true? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

The journal is an intimate, informal record that the young reader may strongly relate to, considering the young reader might also write in this manner, and might also feel many of the same things Dreenie does around those who are different.

1. Do you relate to Dreenie's journal? Why or why not? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

2. Do you think that the feelings Dreenie writes in her journal are ones that other children her age might feel? Why or why not? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. If you decided to keep a journal what would be your major focus as far as subject matter? Why? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Willie is somewhat of a prodigy, and impresses teachers with her intelligence. Dreenie, by contrast, is "normal", and she is envious of the attention her sister gets and worried that she is a "dumbbell".

1. What do you think might be the difficulties a prodigy would face in life? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

2. If you are smarter than most people do you think it would be difficult not to feel superior to them? Why or why not? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. Do you think Dreenie's envy of her sister getting so much attention is a normal reaction? How do you think Dreenie might be able to overcome that envy? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

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