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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 does Petey tell Finn that he is afflicted with in "Blindside"?
2. According to Miguel in "The Fields," what is the purpose of the scarecrows?
3. How does the kidnapper react when Roza threatens to kill herself?
4. What does Charlie tell Finn about the man who took Roza in "The Ballad of Charlie Valentine"?
5. When does Finn decide to go to Petey's in "Blindside"?
Short Essay Questions
1. In the chapter entitled "Slaughter," why does Roza slice her face?
2. In the chapter entitled "The Ballad of Charlie Valentine," what effect does Charlie say that Roza had on the people of Bone Gap?
3. In the chapter entitled "The Whole Picture," how does Petey justify to herself that she snoops around Finn's room?
4. 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)?
5. In the chapter entitled "The Whole Picture," what has Petey discovered, she thinks, about Finn?
6. In the chapter entitled "No One Is Fine," what message might Roza have gotten out of her dream?
7. In the chapter entitled "Crows," why does Sean jog into the house?
8. In the chapter entitled "Punched," why might Finn not have told Sean about his facial blindness condition?
9. In the chapter entitled "Blindside," why is Petey so upset?
10. In the chapter entitled "Sidetracked," why had Roza said that Petey was "fierce like queen"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
If you could change one part of the plot or one event in Bone Gap, what would it be? Why? What would you want to happen instead? How might this change affect the rest of the novel?
Essay Topic 2
With which event in Bone Gap can you relate the most? How so?
Essay Topic 3
Sometimes people speak of bee colonies as having a "hive mind," which means that all the bees think alike and act together, instead of as individuals. How could you apply this analogy to the people of Bone Gap? How do the people of Bone Gap seem to act is if they have a "hive mind"?
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