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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 does Lonnie say of people's behavior at weddings?

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

3. What does Emmett mix with his Coke in the hotel room?

4. A bunch of average-looking pull up in what kind of car as Sam is leaving Burger Boy?

5. What does Anita tell Sam that Emmett wrote on the chalkboard when Anita was visiting high school classes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dawn tell her when Sam tells her Lonnie is going to a stag party?

2. What does Sam feel when she hears the new Beatles song on the radio?

3. How does Sam feel about Bruce Springsteen?

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

5. How does Sam feel about Dawn's news of being pregnant?

6. Why is it ironic that Colonel Blake fell out of the sky on his way home from the war?

7. Why does Hopewell have Flag Days?

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

9. For Sam, what is the difference between the way people express their feelings on TV versus how they do in real life?

10. Why doesn't Emmett take the job he is offered at the cookie factory?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Anita loves Emmett very much. Why can't Emmett have a relationship with her? What does Sam speculate at different times in the book might be his problem with Anita and women in general?

Essay Topic 2

Sam feels she knows nothing about herself, her name, and her father. How are these feelings manifested and how do they drive her to find out more about her history?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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