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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 long has Dicey been awake in Part 1, Chapter 1?
3. After Dicey's mother leaves the children in the car, how much money do they spend for supper at a mall?
4. What name does Dicey give a security guard who stops her when she makes a phone call in Part 1, Chapter 1?
5. After seeing how far they have come on their first day on the road, how long does Dicey estimate it will take to get to Bridgeport?
Short Essay Questions
1. After going to the bathroom, why do Dicey and her siblings not go back to the car before they set off walking?
2. What does Dicey discover when she looks at a map to see how far they traveled their first day walking?
3. What is Dicey's routine in Chapter 11, and how does it make her feel?
4. What does Dicey buy in Chapter 4, and how does the clerk help her?
5. Where do the children find themselves after 10 p.m. when they are walking through New Haven, and what does Dicey decide to do?
6. What does Liza Tillerman look like when she walks away from her children in the car?
7. Why does Dicey know that she and her siblings cannot go back to Provincetown?
8. In Chapter 6, how do the children make some money?
9. Who is living at the children's aunt's house, and what does she tell them?
10. Where does Stewart take the children before the takes them to their aunt's house?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Dicey longs for a home. Why does Dicey decide to settle for a place to live, rather than trying to find a home and what is the difference between a place to live and a home?
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Dicey has some epiphanies or realizations that change her perspective. What epiphanies does Dicey have? How do they give her a different perspective on the world and her place in it?
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