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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 do the girls feel about their project when class presentations are made?

2. What is the symbolic meaning of the decoration Bluish brings?

3. What does Dreenie suspect about Bluish's mom?

4. What is each group's initial task to be?

5. What does Rita think of the name "Bluish"?

Short Essay Questions

1. About what does Bluish speak to the class, what does she give them and how do they respond?

2. What does Mrs. Baker tell the students about why they are lucky and what does she say about the way the students are with Bluish?

3. What is the class going to be starting in Chapter 4?

4. What does Dreenie say is the way she sees Bluish as feeling physically?

5. What does Bluish's mother bring the girls, and how does Dreenie describe Bluish's parents?

6. How is Dreenie beginning to feel at school and with whom does she have a positive connection?

7. How do some of the students feel about Bluish?

8. Who decorated the Christmas tree in the classroom, what does Dreenie think of it and what has been added to the tree besides Christmas decorations?

9. What lands on Bluish's arm and what does Max say that upsets her?

10. What does Dreenie's project group decide upon as their topic and who writes up their agreement and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Dreenie's accurate appraisal of Tuli's need for attention and love demonstrates that Dreenie is quite wise. The reader begins to see that Dreenie's fears about low intelligence are unfounded, given her acumen about Tuli.

1. In what ways do you think Dreenie seems to be wise? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

2. In what ways do you think Dreenie demonstrates her intelligence? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. Discuss what you think is the difference between intelligence and wisdom. Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

By introducing a gamut of reactions among the students to Bluish - from fear to pity to confusion to anger - the author is indicating that all of these feelings are normal, and that no one should be ashamed to feel what they are feeling around someone who is different like Bluish.

1. What do you think someone might fear around a child like Bluish? Discuss the physical, mental and emotional types of fear. Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

2. Do you think pity is beneficial for someone like Bluish? Why or why not? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. What do you think is the difference between pity and compassion? How might one respond to a person differently if he or she felt compassion instead of pity? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Tuli functions in the book as comic relief, with her amusing antics relieving the tension of the main story and the gravity of Bluish's serious condition. Comic moments with Tuli are accomplished with her outlandish, silly sayings and also her clumsy mannerisms, as when she intentionally slips on the sidewalk ice to get attention.

1. What do you think is the importance of comic relief in a book which centers on a serious illness of a young person? Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

2. Explain why you think other children would think Tuli is funny. Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. Discuss a person you know in school who uses humor to get attention. Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

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