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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 boy from whom Soot steals on page 214?

2. What does the Author get at a bar when he is on a date with Kelly in San Francisco?

3. What is the name of a woman the Author has dinner with in San Francisco when Sharon calls and says seeing that woman is a mistake?

4. What does the Kid say is his favorite animal?

5. What is the name of the minister people question about William's death?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Soot see and feel when his father dies?

2. What happens one night after Paul and Soot are target practicing in the woods?

3. What type of house does Renny have, and why does he drive?

4. What does the Author say about Sharon when he sees that she is meeting him in Bolton?

5. Who asks the Author to autograph a book somewhere over West Texas, and what does he say about the fear that the Author has?

6. Why did the Author never fit in Bolton?

7. What does a minister tell the people of Bolton who gathered to hear the Author?

8. What is the Kid's favorite animal and why?

9. What does the Author remember about his father?

10. Why does Soot become a believer in stories?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Author is a daydreamer. How are the Author’s daydreams different from other people’s daydreams? How and why do his daydreams and imagination cause him to struggle with reality?

Essay Topic 2

Soot becomes interested in stories. How and why does Soot become interested in stories? What does he realize about their power?

Essay Topic 3

William has things that he wants to teach Soot. What does William want to teach Soot? Why does he not teach Soot about the world Soot lives in?

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