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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 time does Windy take the children to a diner?

2. How much money does Dicey have left at the beginning of Part 1, Chapter 3?

3. How much are bus tickets to Bridgeport?

4. What does Eunice suggest Dicey fix for dinner in Chapter 10?

5. How much money does Eunice give Dicey in Chapter 10 to buy food?

Short Essay Questions

1. What plans are made for the children in Chapter 9?

2. Why does Eunice wake Dicey early in Chapter 10?

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

4. What do the children eat when they cannot go clamming in Chapter 4?

5. Why do the children hurry away in Chapter 6?

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. What is Dicey's routine in Chapter 11, and how does it make her feel?

9. What do the Tillerman children look like?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Dicey’s mother leaves her in charge of her three younger siblings. What decisions does Dicey have to make when she is left in charge of her siblings? How do her decisions affect the four of them?

Essay Topic 3

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and character? How does it help readers connect with and understand characters?

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