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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 Frannie say is different about walking home with Samantha in chapter six?

2. Why is the class cheering that morning?

3. What is Maribel playing on the playground?

4. What is Frannie's reaction when her father takes her hand?

5. What can Frannie smell from the cafeteria?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Frannie say about the new boy's appearance as he looks around the room?

2. Describe the conversation between Frannie and the girls who are watching Sean play basketball.

3. What does Frannie remember about the baby that didn't "thrive", and what is another memory of someone using that word?

4. What are the reactions of Samantha and Maribel when the new boy signs to answer the question posed by Trevor and Rayray?

5. What do Frannie and Samantha say about the fact that the new boy is white and Samantha's idea that he might be Jesus?

6. 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?

7. 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?

8. How was Trevor injured?

9. What is Frannie's mother's interpretation of the poem about hope, and what does Sean say about it?

10. What's Frannie's reaction to Trevor's injury?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Frannie and Sean play a game in which one says a word and the other describes how that word sounds. How did this game come into being? Why is it important to both of them? Frannie says Sean is better at it than she. How can this be true considering that Sean doesn't hear sounds?

Essay Topic 2

Who is Sean? What is he like? What are his challenges? How does he face these?

Essay Topic 3

List one of the major themes of this book? Give at least three examples of theme in the story.

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