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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. On the way to lunch, what do Hope and Monica tell Tamaya to say about her bandaged hand?

2. When the school nurse is taking care of her hand, why does Tamaya keep hoping the nurse will hurry up?

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

4. When Tamaya peeks down the back of the assistant headmaster's shirt, what is she looking for?

5. Why does Tamaya have to jump over the gully?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tamaya end up getting completely stuck in the fuzzy mud?

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

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

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

5. What details show the reader how Hope, Monica, and Summer want boys to see them?

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

7. What makes Mrs. Thaxton feel so guilty about Tamaya's disappearance?

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

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

10. When Tamaya confronts Marshall on the basketball court, what makes it clear that the school nurse's treatment is not helping Tamaya's rash?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What kind of a person is Jonathan Fitzman? Is he a villain in this novel, or is his character more complicated than this? How do his intentions match up with his actions and their results? How well does he do at taking responsibility for his actions? Write an essay in which you evaluate his character and show how details and language from throughout the novel reveal what kind of a person Fitzman is. If you use quoted evidence, remember to cite it in MLA format.

Essay Topic 2

When you began reading this novel, you made a guess about whether Tamaya would be a static or dynamic character. What kind of a person is she at the beginning of this book? How do you know? What kind of a person is she at the end? How do you know? Does this make her a static or a dynamic character? After you have an answer to these questions, write an essay that makes a claim about whether Tamaya is a static or dynamic character and that uses evidence from the beginning, middle, and end of the text to support your claim. Remember that if you use quoted evidence, this should be cited 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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