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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 the second summer, how long ago did Jerry get into big trouble?

2. What is Jimmy's occupation?

3. Who jokingly offers to take the children on a boat?

4. What does Sissie's world revolve around in the first summer?

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 does Sissie claim anchors her to the earth?

2. Why does Sissie feel uneasy in the boat with her father?

3. What is Sissie afraid of in Part 1?

4. How does the writer make the summer season very apparent in the text in Part 2?

5. Describe the family dynamic in Sissie's household.

6. What foreshadowing is present in the first part of the story, and what is foreshadowed?

7. Why does Sissie call her encounter with the mysterious man a "game"?

8. How does Sissie compare the bar at the end of the book to the same bar years earlier?

9. What does Sissie regret in her past?

10. How does Sissie compare herself to the boat she rides in? Why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze Sissie's development as a character. Describe her starting position in comparison to her ending position. How does she change physically? How do her emotions and beliefs change? Why?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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