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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 color does Lola tell Virgil to beware of in Chapter 11?
2. Who does Valencia sometimes pray to?
3. What kind of creature does Valencia bring food to in the woods?
4. What does Chet do with Virgil's backpack in Chapter 16?
5. What does Valencia's mother send her off to find in Chapter 9 at the grocery store?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who is the student from Virgil's school who bullies him, and what does the bully usually say?
2. Why does Valencia think of Chet Bullens as "Scrunch"?
3. In Chapter 11, what does Lola warn Virgil about for the day ahead?
4. How does Valencia feel about her own name?
5. Why does Virgil's family nickname him Turtle?
6. What kind of a chart does Kaori have that she explains to Gen in Chapter 14?
7. What kind of advice does Virgil seek from Kaori Tanaka, and who is Kaori?
8. In Chapter 5, what does Virgil suspect is wrong with Gulliver, and why does he think this?
9. In Chapter 17, how and why does Virgil end up trapped in the old well in the woods?
10. In Chapter 4, what does Kaori say to her little sister Gen to entice her to wake up and help her?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay comparing and contrasting the different types of pressures and expectations Virgil, Kaori, Chet, and Valencia feel from their parents throughout the book. Whose relationship with his or her parents seem to evolve the most significantly from the beginning of the book to the end?
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast the language and sentence structure Kelly uses in Kaori's dialogue compared to the other four children in the book - Virgil, Valencia, Chet, and Gen. How is Kaori's vocabulary and tone different from that of the other childrens'?
Essay Topic 3
How does the dialogue between Mr. Bullens and Chet Bullens in Chapter 10 give the reader a different perspective on Chet's personality and bullying behavior? What do you think Kelly is trying to accomplish in this chapter?
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