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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. In "Flying Lessons," who is the boy at the beach with?

2. In "Choctaw Bigfoot, Midnight in the Mountains," what does the narrator's mom always say about Uncle Kenneth?

3. In "Main Street," how long have the narrator's parents been together?

4. In "Flying Lessons," what is wrong with the first beach they go to?

5. In "Seventy-Six Dollars and Forty-Nine Cents," where does Angel's grandmother live?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Santosh and Tomas have in common?

2. In "Sometimes a Dream Needs a Push," why is the narrator so nervous about his dad getting involved with his team?

3. In "Flying Lessons," why has the grandmother brought Santosh to Europe?

4. In "Choctaw Bigfoot," who are the Bohpoli and what are they like?

5. In "Sometimes a Dream Needs a Push," what happened to put the narrator in a wheelchair?

6. In "Choctaw Bigfoot," how does the story climax and eventually end?

7. In "Flying Lessons," what is wrong with Santosh's choice of ice cream?

8. How does Nani manage to introduce Santosh and Tomas?

9. How did the narrator get her nickname?

10. In "Main Street," why does the narrator lose her old friends once Celeste arrives?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you discuss how Isaiah Dunn changes and grows over the course of the story, "The Rice and Beans Chronicles of Isaiah Dunn." What is he like at the beginning of the story? What is he like at the end? What has happened to change him?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you discuss which character you think has the most influence on the narrator's growth in the story "How to Transform an Ordinary Hoop Court into a Place of Higher Learning and You at the Podium" and why.

Essay Topic 3

In an essay, trace the development of leaves as a symbol in the story "Main Street." How does the writer use them and what point is she trying to make with them?

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