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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 lands on Bluish's arm?

2. What does Bluish show the class?

3. What does Max explain?

4. Where does Bluish get stuck with a large needle?

5. What do Bluish and Dreenie sort through?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Tuli, Dreenie and Bluish doing at Bluish's house?

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

3. What is the surprise in class that Dreenie springs on Bluish?

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

5. What type of exhibit do the kids enter at the Natural History Museum and why does Bluish stand?

6. What does Rita say to the girls about Bluish's nickname?

7. What does Bluish write on a sign she hangs around her neck and how does Dreenie help her with it?

8. Where does Dreenie invite Bluish and what does Bluish say about the invitation?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Bluish parks her wheelchair right outside the classroom, so that kids have to squeeze around her in order to leave the classroom. Dreenie thinks about asking if Bluish needs help to move, but she does not ask. Bluish exclaims that she has put herself in the way so that the other kids are forced to look at her, as apparently everyone has been nervous around her and have been averting their eyes.

1. Discuss what you think life would be like if you were confined to a wheelchair. Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

2. Discuss why you think Bluish blocking the door with her wheelchair was or was not a good action on her part. Use examples from the book and your own life to support your answer.

3. Explain why you think Bluish's classmates had a difficult time looking at her. Discuss their fears and uncertainties. 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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