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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," where does Angel's grandmother live?

2. In "Choctaw Bigfoot, Midnight in the Mountains," how does the narrator say you know you are with family?

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

4. In "Flying Lessons," how does the narrator know his grandmother is not going to swim at the beach?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In "Seventy-Six Dollars," how does Monk convince Herve that he has superpowers?

4. What career did the narrator's father have in "Sometimes a Dream Needs a Push."

5. How did the narrator get her nickname?

6. In "Flying Lessons," who does Santosh meet at the beach?

7. In "Sometimes a Dream Needs a Push," what does the dad teach his son's team?

8. In "Main Street," how is it that Celeste came to live in Peterborough?

9. In "Seventy-Six Dollars," how does Monk convince Angel Carter he has superpowers?

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

Choose at least two stories from this collection in which the characters have lost a parent. Write an essay in which you compare and contrast how these losses affect the main characters and how the writers seem to use these tragedies to shape the messages of their works.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Choose two or more stories from this collection and write an essay in which you compare/ contrast how money plays an important role in what happens and the messages the authors are trying to get across.

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