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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. Why did Tara's horse go berserk?

2. What did Tara have to teach herself after the car accident?

3. Which boy was Tara interested in at the Opera House?

4. What did Charles tell Tara was wrong with her home?

5. Which scholarship did Tara win in "Graduation"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Charles give Tara that was considered a harmful drug to her family?

2. What were some of the ways Shawn was manipulative toward Sadie?

3. What rumors did Tara hear about Shawn from the people in town?

4. How was Robin's behavior toward Tara different than the way her other roommates treated her?

5. What did Tara's Grandpa-down-the-hill do with most of the wild horses he rounded up?

6. In Chapter 12, what did Shawn do when Tara refused to apologize?

7. How were the Mormon students at school different than Tara?

8. What did Tara question about her expected role as a female in her religion?

9. What was Emily's outlook regarding her relationship with Shawn?

10. Where did Tyler say Tara should go so she could be free?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is it that the more Tara learns about the world the less power her parents have over her? In what ways do her father's fears that society will change his children become true for Tara? Is she corrupted or enlightened?

Essay Topic 2

In the Epigraph, Virginia Woolf’s quote is about the past and John Dewey’s quote is about education. Explain why the author used these two quotes. How do they represent the entirety of the book?

Essay Topic 3

Why did Tara and some of her siblings not have birth certificates? Explain the methods Tara's mother employed to get the documents. How was Tara's identity connected to her legitimacy on paper?

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