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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 the class cheering that morning?

2. What does Frannie say is different about walking home with Samantha in chapter six?

3. What color are the pants the new boy is wearing?

4. How many of her children does Mama say are in Baby Heaven?

5. Where does the new boy say he learned to sign?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do Sean, Frannie and Mama do on Saturday morning?

3. What does Frannie say about her grandmother, her church attendance and her Bible?

4. 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?

5. What is the game Sean and Frannie sometimes play about sounds and give one example of their game.

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

7. What are the scars on Frannie's hands, where did they come from and what does her mother do to them sometimes?

8. How was Trevor injured?

9. Describe what Frannie sees at the corner of North Conduit and Eastbay Road.

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

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 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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