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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 color are Trevor's eyes?

2. What does Mama say when Frannie says that she feels as if the world is slipping away from her?

3. Where does the new boy sit?

4. What time does Frannie get home from school?

5. What is noteworthy about the new boy's father?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Frannie sit down near Maribel and what does she think about Maribel?

2. What does Maribel say about the lunch and what is the comparison she makes to another cafeteria?

3. How does Frannie describe the new boy's voice on his first morning in the class room, and why does the class react to it?

4. What does Frannie say about Sean's ability to dance and how she sometimes wished she could live in silence.

5. What does Frannie say some people might see if they looked into her neighborhood and what does she think about her neighborhood?

6. What does Frannie say about Trevor's reputation and the way other children felt about him?

7. What did Frannie's parents begin doing after Lila's death and what is the significance of this action?

8. What does Frannie say about how quickly she's growing up?

9. What does Frannie say about their parents decision not to have an operation that might have made Sean hear and about what her mother sometimes does to Sean's ears?

10. What are some of the things Frannie says she would ask Jesus if she met Him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe how Frannie's relationship with the new boy changes over the course of the book. Why does it change? Samantha's thoughts about the new boy also change over the course of the book. Are the changes similar? Are they prompted by the same thing?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the poem that Frannie likes about hope and feathers. What is Trevor's interpretation of the poem? What is Frannie's mom's interpretation? What is Frannie's interpretation? Which do you believe to be correct? Why?

Essay Topic 3

When Trevor is picking on the new boy about being white, the boy counters, saying that Trevor obviously has a white father who lives on the other side of the highway. Was the new boy right to strike Trevor in a way that was so hurtful? Why or why not?

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