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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 were Ralph and his brother doing when Grover Dill came out of nowhere during their childhood?
2. What is the theme in Chapters 3 and 4?
3. How do Ralph's parents fight about the "major award"?
4. Hohman's weather is described as having:
5. What elementary school do the children of Hohman attend?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Ralph think people in Northern Indiana like fireworks so much?
2. How does Ralph's mother react to the fight?
3. Why is it more interesting to hear the story about the Christmas plot to get a BB gun from a child's perspective rather than from the voice of "Adult Ralph"?
4. What are the settings in chapters 19 and 20?
5. Why were the movie night contests so important to the people of Hohman?
6. What is the significance of the blind date story?
7. Why is Cedar Lake special to Ralph and Flick?
8. Ralph is told he will "shoot his eye out" by his mother, his teacher, and Santa. Explain why each is so devastating to his plans.
9. What are the three most important things to a Midwesterner?
10. How is "the Graham" damaged?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Explore and describe the theme "parents versus children" used throughout the book. Why was it such an important theme? Did it help bring laughter and joy or heartache and pain to the book and why? How can everyone relate to this theme?
Essay Topic 2
What do we learn about the Great Depression through stories told by a young child instead of those same stories told by an adult?
Essay Topic 3
Ralph was clearly fascinated by the Little Orphan Annie Secret Circle Club. Explain why he was so determined to be part of the membership club. Why did he feel such a need for membership? What did he learn about commercialism and real life from the secret club? Why was it a lesson he kept with him into his adulthood?
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