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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 Grandma say when she and Sam are talking and Grandpa teasingly inquires about their conversation?

2. What had Sam lost the desire for one Christmas that parallel's her loss of desire for Lonnie?

3. Where does Irene want to go that she doesn't think she will ever get to?

4. What is Mawmaw's daughter's name?

5. Irene shows up at the house with Emmett in what kind of car?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why didn't Sam give her mother the ceramic cat she decorated when Irene gave her $600 to buy the car?

2. How does Sam perceive the Washington Monument and the flag near the Vietnam Memorial?

3. Why does Irene want Emmett to warn her next time he comes to Lexington and how does Emmett respond to her sarcasm?

4. How does Sam blame herself for what went wrong with Tom at his apartment?

5. How does Irene describe Bob?

6. What does Sam hope Tom will do the day after their encounter at his apartment?

7. Why hadn't the the previous occupant of Sam's house, Bessie, thrown away the liquor bottles her husband had drunk from?

8. How does Emmett react to Sam's admonishment of her father's feelings toward the war that he expressed in his journal?

9. Why did Emmett get soured on the war and who did he get involved with afterward?

10. How does Sam feel about her current status as a runaway?

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

To Sam, Dawn represents the status quo in Hopewell. How? What does Sam tell her to to do to avoid being part of the norm there?

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