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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. Where does the narrator comment that the man who won what her father lost in a game of 45 sold the object?

2. What color is the Kinsella's house?

3. How many measures of water does the narrator drink in Chapter 2?

4. What does the narrator use in Chapter 2 to take a drink from the well?

5. In Chapter 2, why does the narrator's family not have the hay in?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 2, what does Mrs. Kinsella say when the narrator asks if there is a secret connected to going to the well?

2. In Chapter 1, where do the narrator and her father drive?

3. How do Mrs. Kinsella and the narrator get to the well?

4. How does the narrator describe Mrs. Kinsella the first time she sees her?

5. In Chapter 2, how does the narrator get water from the well?

6. When does Dan decide he needs to leave?

7. What familiar places do the narrator and her father pass on their drive in Chapter 1?

8. How is the bath the narrator takes in Chapter 2 different from what she has at home?

9. What lie does Dan tell the Kinsellas about the hay when he and Mr. Kinsellas come into the kitchen?

10. As Mrs. Kinsella brushes the narrator's hair, what can the narrator see outside the window in Chapter 2?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The narrator comes from a poor family. How would you describe the narrator’s socioeconomic status? How does poverty affect her life?

Essay Topic 2

When the narrator arrives to stay with the Kinsellas, she has mixed feelings about staying there. Why does the narrator have mixed feelings about staying with the Kinsellas? How does she overcome these feelings?

Essay Topic 3

Accumulation is a literary device that allows an author to gather scattered ideas in a literary work and gradually build on information readers need to know. From whose perspective is Foster told? How do chapters build and add information? How does Keegan use accumulation to advance the plot and provide important details to readers?

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