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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. Why is Trevor absent on the second day after the new boy arrives?
2. Why does the boy say he first signed to Frannie?
3. What does Trevor ask the new boy when the boy doesn't say what his name is?
4. What does Trevor call the new boy and Frannie when he walks into the rec center?
5. How many of her children does Mama say are in Baby Heaven?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the conversation between Sean and Frannie as they begin cooking dinner.
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 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?
4. What is Frannie's mother's interpretation of the poem about hope, and what does Sean say about it?
5. What does Daddy tell Frannie about her worry over her mother and the new baby?
6. What does Frannie say about her hair and her mother's one attempt to change it?
7. What did Frannie's parents begin doing after Lila's death and what is the significance of this action?
8. Describe what Frannie sees at the corner of North Conduit and Eastbay Road.
9. What does Frannie say about Trevor's reputation and the way other children felt about him?
10. What do Frannie and Samantha say about the fact that the new boy is white and Samantha's idea that he might be Jesus?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the most important scene of the story? 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
Samantha asks Frannie why she rushed to help Trevor up after he fell in the school yard. What is Samantha's response and what does she mean by this? Why is Frannie skeptical that this could really be Frannie's motivation? Is Frannie right?
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