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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. Which restaurant on the trip has Sam heard is good?

2. What is Emmett going to work on in the house after the foundation is fixed?

3. Whose death was more real to Sam than the death of her father when she was a child?

4. Where does Sam go running early in the morning?

5. What does Dawn want to buy at the drugstore?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Sam afraid to ask Emmett why he flew the Vietcong flag from the courthouse?

2. What do Sam and Dawn have in common concerning their living arrangements?

3. How does Sam think society has changed towards women becomeing pregnant out of wedlock?

4. How does Dawn feel about her father?

5. How does Anita describe the police officer she is dating from Benton?

6. Why does Emmett warn Sam and Lonnie not to let Moon Pie outside when the leave for Caewood's Pond?

7. What reasons does Sam have for trying to persuade Emmett to get a job?

8. Why does Sam think America could have won the Vietnam War if the enemy understood English?

9. Why doesn't Lonnie want to be an electrician?

10. What is the excuse Sam thinks to herself that might keep her from going to Lonnie's brother's wedding?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Sam react when she finally gets to the Vietnam Memorial? How does finding aversion her own name on the memorial affect her? How do Mawmaw and Emmett react?

Essay Topic 2

Sam is resentful of her mother's new baby. Explain why.

Essay Topic 3

The Beatles are a recurrent motif in the book. What do they represent for Sam?

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