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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. Which of the following details is provided about Jerry's appearance?
2. Describe the relationship among the children in the first summer the reader sees at the tavern.
3. Who claims to hate their father?
4. What beverage does Sissie's father drink in the beginning of the story?
5. What does Sissie do on the island in the second summer?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Sissie compare the bar at the end of the book to the same bar years earlier?
2. Is Sissie comfortable being around her father in Part 2? Why or why not?
3. How does the writer demonstrate that Sissie's language has matured by the fourth part?
4. In "Four Summers", what role are women meant to play? How does Sissie feel about this?
5. At the end of the book, what does Sissie believe about her mother?
6. Is Sissie an innocent character in the beginning of the story? Why or why not?
7. What causes Sissie to feel suffocated in the final part of the book?
8. In what way has the narration matured in the second summer that Sissie narrates?
9. When Sissie sees her father throwing up, why is she afraid?
10. Why does Sissie feel that she is a burden in Part 3? How does this make her feel?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How can the reader tell the differences between each narration? How does the reader know that the narrator has matured between sections? How does diction change? How does Sissie's comprehension change?
Essay Topic 2
Would you consider distrust to be a theme in the book? Who is Sissie distrustful of? Why?
Essay Topic 3
Explain Sissie's family dynamic: How does she feel about her parents and siblings? how does this change over time? why do you think this changes? what predictions can you make for the way Sissie's family dynamic will change?
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