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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 the name of the grocery store in the town owned by Verena?

2. What does Little Homer wear?

3. What does the narrator say it seems like the tree house is doing at the end of Chapter 6?

4. At what time does the narrator say the rain slackens in Chapter 6?

5. Where are Dolly and the Judge when the narrator returns from his outing with Riley in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sister Ida do after Riley is shot?

2. Where do Collin and Riley go in Chapter 5? Why?

3. What choice does Dolly make at the end of Chapter 6? Why?

4. What does Riley respond to Sister Ida's asking for Dolly's location? What does he relate to the narrator about her?

5. Who arrives at the tree house in Chapter 4 to explain the latest events? What does this character relate?

6. What conversation do Collin and Dolly have once he has returned to the tree house in Chapter 4?

7. What do Riley and Collin do in the beginning of Chapter 4?

8. How and why are the evangelists run out of town?

9. What happens when Collin and Riley return to the tree house in Chapter 4?

10. How is Riley shot during the fight?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the different conflicts that occur in the novel. What is the overriding conflict that drives the action? What are internal conflicts within the characters? How does conflict define dramatic literature?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the use of foreshadowing in The Grass Harp. What is the purpose of foreshadowing? What are examples from the text? What effect do these examples achieve?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the author's use of exposition and flashback techniques in The Grass Harp. What effect is achieved through flashback? What is the purpose of exposition? What does Capote reveal in the beginning of the novel through exposition?

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