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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. Where does Gwendy find the button box?

2. When does Gwendy meet a literary agent who asks her to send her a copy of her book?

3. When Gwendy is a congresswoman, how long has it been since she has seen the button box?

4. In Chapter 30, where do Gwendy and her mother have lunch?

5. How old is Gwendy in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Patsy Follett and what does she look like?

2. What dream does Gwendy have in Chapter 19?

3. What two things does Gwendy find in her offce in Chapter 8?

4. What does the button box look like?

5. Who does Gwendy sometimes imagine Patsy Follett and her receptionist Bea Whiteley are?

6. How did Gwendy become a published author, and how many books has she written?

7. In Chapter 1, what does Gwendy remember about her first visit to Washington, D.C.?

8. In Chpater 32, what does Gwendy do after dropping her mother back home, and what does she hear and see?

9. In Chapter 14, where is Ryan, and why is he there?

10. In Chapter 24, what does Gwendy do when she gets to her condo?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Ryan is a photojournalist. How and why is Ryan’s job so dangerous?

Essay Topic 2

The climax in a novel is the highest point of tension and a turning point. What is the climax of Gwendy’s Magic Feather and why is that incident the climax?

Essay Topic 3

Idioms are words that have a figurative, rather than a literal meaning. How does the author use idioms in the book? Why are the idioms sometimes difficult to understand? Why do the idioms often require research to understand their meaning?

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