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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 is ironic about how careful Tamaya is in positioning Chad when they are getting ready to jump the gully?

2. What possible ergonym mutation are the senators worried about?

3. When Marshall offers Tamaya his shirt so that she can clear the mud from her mouth, ears, and nose, what is her objection?

4. What part of Marshall gets muddy when he is first trying to help Tamaya out of the gully?

5. What does Marshall use to wipe Tamaya's eyes off?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Chapter 21 reveal will happen in Heath Cliff?

2. What condition is Chad in when Tamaya finally finds him?

3. How does Tamaya end up getting more fuzzy mud on her, and how does her response show her common sense?

4. What is ironic about Chad's threat to use the stick to hit Tamaya?

5. How does Chad feel that he is different from his siblings and from the other Woodridge students?

6. When they are in the woods together, what does Chad reveal is behind his anger toward Marshall?

7. What happens when Mr. Walsh shows up at Woodridge to pick up Marshall?

8. What steps do Marshall and Tamaya take to warn the search party about the mud?

9. When Chad tells Tamaya and Marshall about being up in the trees, what does Tamaya think sounds so nice about it, and why?

10. How does Chad answer Tamaya's question about why he acts the way he does?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Sachar use both flashback and flash-forward in this narrative? What is the difference between these techniques and the purposes they serve in this story? What similar purposes do they serve? Write an essay that analyzes how and why Sachar uses both techniques. Support your arguments with evidence drawn from throughout the book. If you use quoted evidence, remember to cite it in MLA format.

Essay Topic 2

Tamaya's and Marshall's parents clearly love them, but they cannot always make everything easy for their children. How is this different from Chad's situation? What details from the novel show that Tamaya and Marshall get more love and attention at home than Chad does? What is Chad's theory about why his parents seem to reject him? Is the novel trying to get the reader on Chad's side or on the parents' side? How do you know? What impact does this rejection have on Chad? Write an essay in which you take and defend a position about what the most important difference is between the way Chad's parents treat him and the way Tamaya's and Marshall's parents treat them. Show how this difference impacts Chad and what message about parenting is being conveyed. Support your claims with evidence drawn from throughout the text. If you use quoted evidence, remember to cite it in MLA format.

Essay Topic 3

You have already spent some time thinking about the symbolism of the Woodridge Academy sweaters. But there are several other symbols that are important in the same section of the text. Think about the role that food plays in this section, for instance, or the importance of the trees Chad climbs. Choose another symbol from the part of the story where Tamaya goes into the woods to rescue Chad and Marshall ends up rescuing both Tamaya and Chad (Chapters 21-31). Write an essay that describes the symbol and then shows how this symbol is developed throughout this section of text. Make sure that your essay offers a clear theory about what the symbol conveys, and support your ideas with evidence from the text.

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