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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. How does Valencia feel about losing Roberta as a friend?

2. What does Gen suggest that Kaori does to try to find out what happened to Virgil?

3. How does Valencia think of moving through the woods in Chapter 19?

4. What does Virgil remember that Bayani means in Chapter 27?

5. What is one of Chet's father's favorite expressions that Chet remembers in Chapter 29?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Valencia do for Roberta in Chapter 19 when she learns Roberta is afraid of snakes?

2. In Chapter 29, why is Valencia nervous about knocking on Virgil's door for the first time?

3. In Chapter 27, what do Kaori, Gen and Valencia decide to do about Virgil's mysterious absence?

4. In Chapter 28, what is one of the things that Valencia does that caught Virgil's attention at first and made him like her?

5. In Chapter 22, what does Virgil think when the cover is placed back over the well?

6. In Chapter 21, what does Valencia notice that is different about the old well in the woods?

7. In Chapter 31, what objects does Kaori tell Gen and Valencia she thinks they need to conduct the ceremony she hopes will help them find Virgil?

8. In Chapter 30, what does Chet think about the task of convincing his parents to let him keep a snake if he catches one?

9. In Chapter 19, why do Valencia's parents think she does not need to learn sign language?

10. In Chapter 22, what does Virgil think the distant sound he hears must be?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Chapters 8-10 take place in the Super Saver grocery store where Virgil, Chet, and Valencia are all present at the same time. Write an essay analyzing what the reader learns about each of these three characters, and their intersecting relationships, from these three chapters.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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'?

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