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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 is it about the changed circumstances that has brought each of the kids to insecurity and doubt?
2. What is the subject of the meeting with Maybeth's music teacher?
3. What tasks does Dicey do that she thinks will make a big difference in the store?
4. What is Dicey's thought about her own paper and James' paper about Pilgrims?
5. What is the message in the note from Maybeth's teacher?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Dicey's surprise at being chosen as Mina's science class partner indicate about Dicey's frame of mind.
2. When Maybeth is discouraged and upset by how others treat her, what does James' reaction indicate?
3. Gram receives along letter from the doctor in Boston about Momma's condition. What are Dicey's thoughts when Gram tells her that there has been no change in Momma's condition?
4. Why does Gram insist upon first telling only Dicey about what the teachers had to say?
5. Dicey manages to do well in most of her classes but what is it that nags at her full enjoyment?
6. Why does Dicey begin the school year with a loner attitude and does not attempt to make any friends?
7. What action does Gram take that signals maybe there is a chance for a stable future in Maryland?
8. What does the reaction of Gram and Dicey to the suggestion of a tutor for Maybeth indicate?
9. How is Dicey's thinking impacted when she learns Millie cannot read?
10. What is the effect on Dicey when she returns from a brief time out to learn the kids have gone to bed for the night?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
A universal human trait is to understand who we are as a person partly by understanding the people we are descended from. Discuss the limitations encountered by the Tillerman kids in this regard specifically as it relates to the characters of Gram and Millie.
Essay Topic 2
Most of the adult characters in the story represent conventional, dull adults and their limited world such as the teachers Miss Eversleigh and Mr. Chappelle, and the nurse Miss Preston. Explore the idea that the adults Gram, Momma and Millie do not fit the pattern not because of rebellion to such a world but rather through personal shortcomings.
Essay Topic 3
Miss Eversleigh and the entire course of home economics represent the ordinary, the mundane, the dullness in the basics of life and living. This subject area is fertile ground for rebellion for many young teens. Describe the uniqueness of Dicey's life and how that rebellion is magnified.
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