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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. How does Honorata seem to feel toward Roza, according to the narrative in "No One Is Fine"?

2. What does Roza plan to do after her return in "Sunrise"?

3. Why might Petey not tell her mother why she is upset in "Crows"?

4. When Roza talks to him in the kitchen, Miguel appears to be what, in "The Lamb"?

5. When does Finn decide to go to Petey's in "Blindside"?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the chapter entitled "The Ballad of Charlie Valentine," why does Charlie not want his great-grandchildren around?

2. In the chapter entitled "Slaughter," what does the icy-eyed man tell Finn after he finds Roza?

3. In the chapter entitled "The Lamb," how is the corn personified?

4. In the chapter entitled "The Lamb," how does Roza end up in the O'Sullivan's barn?

5. In the chapter entitled "Sunrise," for what reason does Petey think that Finn and Sean's yard has been littered and vandalized with toilet paper?

6. In the chapter entitled "No One Is Fine," why had her botany professor offered her a ride?

7. In the chapter entitled "Questions," when he is in the hospital and on medication, why does Finn think that Sean hates him?

8. In the chapter entitled "The Whole Picture," how does Petey justify to herself that she snoops around Finn's room?

9. In the chapter entitled "The Ballad of Charlie Valentine," what effect does Charlie say that Roza had on the people of Bone Gap?

10. In the chapter entitled "The Fields," what events and elements seem as if they might be fantasy and not real (which is characteristic of magical realism, the genre of this novel)?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the effect of chapters in Bone Gap being written in the third-person perspective of different characters in the novel? How does this influence our understanding of the story?

Essay Topic 2

How did Sean seem to be affected by his father's death and his mother leaving? How did these events seem to affect Finn?

Essay Topic 3

What is the main conflict in Bone Gap? Explain why the conflict is the main one.

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