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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. Which word best describes Janie's feelings regarding reaching out to her friends at this time in her life?

2. What place do teen couples go to become physical?

3. What does Janie daydream her children's names are?

4. What color is Janie's hair?

5. When Janie arrives to an empty house, while her mother is volunteering, what does Janie first begin looking for?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how the theme of Janie's parents' secrecy thickens in chapter seven.

2. Explain what the tarnished white dress symbolizes.

3. Explain Janie's realization and thought process as she enters her home in chapter three and sees no baby picture.

4. What does Janie realize about her parents' fears in chapter nine?

5. Why does Janie take a sip of Sarah-Charlotte's milk, instead of her own?

6. Explain Janie's feelings about the kiss between her and Reeve.

7. Describe what goes through Janie's mind as she looks at the milk carton.

8. What is Hannah's role within the novel, other than the history the Johnsons provide?

9. What does Janie bring up in chapter eight, when she finally decides to confront her parents?

10. Describe the situation of Janie's struggle with dialing the 800 number on the milk carton, as it appears in chapter five.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What might the blossoming of Reeve and Janie's relationship represent throughout the novel? Is their relationship ever resolved?

Essay Topic 2

Explain how the lack in progression in Janie's relationship with Reeve mirror Janie's progression in discovering the truth of her past?

Essay Topic 3

How does food act as a symbol of the status of the family unit throughout the novel?

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