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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 kind of store had been in the building that is now the church where Samantha's family attends?
2. What happens just as Frannie and the new boy enter the school building?
3. What is Rayray doing while Ms. Johnson is talking about writing a story?
4. What was Mama doing when she heard the news about the draft lottery?
5. What does Samantha answer when Frannie asks if she believes spring will ever come?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the conversation that takes place after Sean arrives home from school.
2. What does the new boy say about Trevor's need to be mean to others. What does Trevor do in chapter eighteen that's mean to Frannie and what is the reaction?
3. Describe the conversation between Frannie and the new boy about where he might have learned to sign.
4. Describe the one fight Frannie says she's had.
5. What are some of the things Frannie writes on her paper as part of her assignment in chapter eighteen?
6. Describe what had happened when Frannie was at Samantha's for dinner and asked for chicken.
7. What does Frannie think she might do on the Saturday she's planning to go to the rec center, and why does she hope Samantha might go with her?
8. What is the argument that happens between the new boy and Trevor that makes Trevor so angry?
9. Describe the conversation between Samantha and Frannie when Samantha tells Frannie about her dream.
10. What does Sean explain to Frannie about the bridges and what they mean for his ability to talk to hearing girls?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
What is the reaction of the class when the new boy first arrives? Why do they react in this way? What happens to make him become more accepted?
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