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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is the name of the second friend Sissie mentions?

2. Which of the following things does Sissie use in Part 4 as an attempt to reassure herself?

3. Which of the following is the literary device used to show similarities among the years?

4. How did Sissie's father die?

5. Where does Sissie tell her parents that she would like to wait for them in Part 3?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the central conflict in "Four Summers"? Is the conflict in the story physical or emotional? How does the reader know this?

Essay Topic 2

In what ways is Sissie similar and different to her mother? How is Jesse comparable to Sissie's father? What predictions can the reader make based on these commonalities?

Essay Topic 3

In what way is loss of innocence a theme in the story? What causes Sissie to lose her innocence? How does she lose innocence progressively in each section of the story?

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