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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 hair do the couple have that are also staying at the campground in Chapter 4?

2. How much are bus tickets to Bridgeport?

3. How old was Dicey's mother when she ran off with a merchant mariner?

4. In Part 1, Chapter 1, what grade is Maybeth in?

5. In Chapter 4, how long does James try to fish before he complains that there are no fish?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where do the children find themselves after 10 p.m. when they are walking through New Haven, and what does Dicey decide to do?

2. Who stays with James while Dicey and Maybeth go fishing in Chapter 5?

3. What does Father James bring for the children, and what do they still need?

4. What does Dicey buy to eat on the third day they are walking, and how much money remains?

5. In Chapter 5, where does Sammy get food, and why does Dicey get upset?

6. In Chapter 4, how does James get hurt?

7. What does Dicey decide to do at the end of Chapter 12, and why?

8. Where does Stewart take the children before the takes them to their aunt's house?

9. Why does Sergeant Gordo have Dicey come to the police station, and what news does he have for her?

10. After going to the bathroom, why do Dicey and her siblings not go back to the car before they set off walking?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sammy takes food at a park. Why does Dicey yell at him even though she is proud of him?

Essay Topic 2

Eunice takes in the children even though it requires her to change her plans. What does duty have to do with Eunice’s decision to take in the children?

Essay Topic 3

Setting is the place and time where a novel takes place. What is the setting in Homecoming? How does Voigt provide clues regarding when the story takes place?

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