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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. What do Sissie's parents bicker about in the first summer?

2. Which of the following makes the setting in the second summer seem rural?

3. Which of the following is strewn across the island?

4. What quality about her father does Sissie dislike?

5. The reader can determine that the narrator has matured by the second summer after studying which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has changed in Sissie's life between the first two summers narrated?

2. In Part 3, how does Sissie feel about her father?

3. Describe Sissie, the narrator, as she is first introduced.

4. What is one example of imperfection as shown in the text in Part 1?

5. What causes Sissie to lose trust in her mother?

6. Choose one literary device used in Part 2 and explain how it is used.

7. What sets Sissie apart from the other children in Part 1?

8. What does Sissie claim anchors her to the earth?

9. How does Sissie view her father in Part 2? How does this compare to Jerry's view of their father?

10. At the end of the book, what does Sissie believe about her mother?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the hierarchy of the sexes is the book? What are the expectations of women? What are the expectations of men? How does this relate to Sissie?

Essay Topic 2

How do Sissie's feelings about her father change over the course of the narration? How does the reader know that Sissie's feelings about her father are changing? Analyze her feelings for her mother in the same way.

Essay Topic 3

What role does the idea of image versus reality play in the book? What does Sissie imagine the world to be? In truth, how does the world differ? How does this affect Sissie's life?

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