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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 is Daddy's answer when he's asked to name the prettiest place he's ever seen?
2. What is Rayray's real name?
3. How old was Sean when Frannie was born?
4. What's Frannie's chore after dinner?
5. What does Frannie start promising herself as Samantha starts walking away?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the reactions of Samantha and Maribel when the new boy signs to answer the question posed by Trevor and Rayray?
2. What does Frannie say about how quickly she's growing up?
3. What does Frannie say about Trevor's reputation and the way other children felt about him?
4. What do Frannie and Samantha say about the fact that the new boy is white and Samantha's idea that he might be Jesus?
5. What is Frannie's mother's interpretation of the poem about hope, and what does Sean say about it?
6. What does Maribel say about the lunch and what is the comparison she makes to another cafeteria?
7. What does Frannie say about Sean's ability to dance and how she sometimes wished she could live in silence.
8. What does the new boy say when Frannie asks what it was like to live on the other side of the highway.
9. What does Frannie note about Samantha's manners and what happens at the table to make her take note of them?
10. What does Frannie say about Trevor's appearance and what this means about his ethnicity?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
There is a division among blacks and whites even though segregation has been outlawed. Did this situation exist in the 1970s? What has changed since that time?
Essay Topic 2
List one of the major themes of this book? Give at least three examples of theme in the story.
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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