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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the point of view of this novel?
(a) Third person.
(b) First person.
(c) Limited omniscient.
(d) Second person.
2. What does MaWee ask Elijah to read to him in chapter 10?
(a) A sign for Madame Sabbar's show.
(b) A passage from the Bible.
(c) A contract he signed with the owner of the carnival.
(d) A letter his mother sent him.
3. What does Elijah think in chapter 6 will happen to Mr. Travis after he teaches the students about a family breeding contest?
(a) He will be arrested for indecency.
(b) He will be sent back to America.
(c) He will be fired and sent home.
(d) He will be tar and feathered.
4. What is the set in Madame Sabbar's stage designed to look like?
(a) The woods of Buxton.
(b) The rainforest of the Amazon.
(c) The jungles of Sweden.
(d) The forest of Arkansas.
5. What things does Madame Sabbar shoot at in chapter 8?
(a) Stuffed animals.
(b) Audience members.
(c) Lions.
(d) Candles and bulls-eye targets.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does Elijah's mother tell him dies a thousand deaths in chapter 1?
2. What does Elijah think smoking has done to Samuel's body as he watches him undress in chapter 9?
3. What does Mr. Leroy say his son's name is in chapter 7?
4. What is Elijah told to throw stones at to demonstrate his skills in chapter 10?
5. What is Elijah's symbolic last name?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Elijah's mother cook better than she bakes?
2. What is meant by the expression familiarity breeds contempt?
3. What does Elijah use as bait to catch his fish?
4. Why does Elijah divide his secret pond into two parts? What does he do there?
5. Why does Mr. Leroy react as he does in chapter 7 to Elijah's use of a derogatory word?
6. To whom does Elijah take a plate of fried fish in chapter 5?
7. What does Mr. Leroy show Elijah in chapter 7? What is the significance about these things?
8. What do Cooter and Elijah hide in the knitting belonging to Elijah's mother?
9. What is Elijah afraid of? For what reason?
10. Why do Elijah and his friend, Cooter, begin tracking a snake one afternoon?
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