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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 "Seventy-Six Dollars and Forty-Nine Cents," how old is the narrator?

2. In "Choctaw Bigfoot, Midnight in the Mountains," what does the uncle say sitting Indian style means?

3. In "Seventy-Six Dollars and Forty-Nine Cents," what subject is the quiz about?

4. In "Sometimes a Dream Needs a Push," what does the narrator's mom do?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How are the Choctaw involved in "Choctaw Bigfoot"?

4. In "Sometimes a Dream Needs a Push," why does the narrator's dad always seem so quiet?

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

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

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

8. In "Flying Lessons," what does Santosh say is his "deal with the devil"?

9. In "Choctaw Bigfoot," what is the moral of the story?

10. In "Seventy-Six Dollars," how did Monk get his name?

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

Choose two or more stories from this collection in which female characters are treated poorly at least in part because they are female. Then write an essay in which you compare/ contrast how these female characters are treated and what the writers seem to be saying about society's treatment of females in general.

Essay Topic 3

All of the stories in this collection involve both kids and their parents. Choose any two stories and compare/ contrast the way the writers deal with the relationship between children and parents.

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