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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 does Sean say he'd do after he crossed the bridge he's imagined?
2. What does Frannie say is different about walking home with Samantha in chapter six?
3. What does Frannie say she thinks of when she sees the graffiti on buildings in the neighborhood?
4. Why does the boy say he first signed to Frannie?
5. Who does Frannie sit down across from?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Frannie's mother's interpretation of the poem about hope, and what does Sean say about it?
2. What does the new boy reveal about himself, where his family had been prior to his arrival at Price, and why he'd moved to Price?
3. What does Frannie argue when Samantha says that Jesus might have chosen to come to Price at this time because there's a war going on?
4. What does Frannie say about her grandmother, her church attendance and her Bible?
5. What does Frannie say about her memories of the year she'd started school a month late?
6. How was Trevor injured?
7. What does Daddy tell Frannie about her worry over her mother and the new baby?
8. What are the reactions of Samantha and Maribel when the new boy signs to answer the question posed by Trevor and Rayray?
9. Describe what Frannie sees at the corner of North Conduit and Eastbay Road.
10. What are the scars on Frannie's hands, where did they come from and what does her mother do to them sometimes?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who is Samantha? What is her relationship to Frannie? Who is Maribel? What is her relationship to Frannie? Compare Samantha and Maribel. Which character is most likable? Why?
Essay Topic 2
Frannie says that Sean taught her to speak and that she grew up "in his world of words." How might Frannie's life have been different without Sean's influence? Would her life have been better? Why or why not?
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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