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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 old are the couple Dicey sees when she walks to the beach in Chapter 4?

2. How old is Dicey's mother?

3. What time does Eunice always go to mass?

4. In Part 1, Chapter 1, how old is James?

5. What color is everything that Eunice wears in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who finds Dicey in Chapter 7, and what does he do?

2. What does Dicey buy in Chapter 4, and how does the clerk help her?

3. In Chapter 10, what does Dicey buy at the store, and how does she get a recipe for tuna casserole?

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

5. What do Edie and Louis tell the children they learned when they went to the grocery store in Chapter 5?

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

7. What happens when Dicey goes to call the bus stations and find out prices of tickets?

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

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

10. How do the days and nights run togther in Dicey's mind by Chapter 7?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Voigt uses juxtaposition in Homecoming to compare and contrast. How and why does Voigt use juxtaposition in Homecoming?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Father Joseph makes assumptions about Liza and the Tillerman family. What assumptions does Father Joseph make? How do his assumptions affect what he thinks of the family and how he treats them?

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