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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. Where does Amanda work?

2. Who is considered to be uppity at Mathilda's birth?

3. Who refrains from commenting on Ruth's friendship with Imogene?

4. Who drops Clement's vacuum idea?

5. Who is Amanda's little sister?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Amanda, Mathilda, and Rudy end up on the island?

2. What occurs when Clement prepares to go to Washington?

3. What is recalled about Amanda when Mathilda is born?

4. Discuss Ruth's thoughts of her mother while at the island with her friends?

5. Discuss the narration in Part 1, Chapter 1.

6. What happens at the hospital when Carl and Ruth go to see Amanda?

7. Discuss the Lakeridge School.

8. Discuss Amanda's visits to the Bait and Tackle shop.

9. Discuss the adjustment for Amanda, Carl, and Ruth to become a family.

10. What is Amanda's reaction to Ruth being at the island?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the relationship between Amanda and Ruth with that of Amanda and Imogene and the effects this has on the characters as well as the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the organization of Part 1 of the novel with that of Part 2. How do the sections differ? Why does the author divide the novel into two parts?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the relationship between Ruth and Carl and the changes it encounters throughout the story.

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