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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. Where does Pete want to take Sam that creeps her out?

2. Who had Emmett ridden with to Lexington?

3. What has caused the tiny bumps on Tom's back?

4. Apparently the Vietnamese could make a bomb out of what that the Americans threw away?

5. What Doors song is playing on the radio when Sam is decorating the ceramic cat?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is happening to Sam's perception as she spends time in Tom's apartment?

2. How does Irene describe Bob?

3. What does Irene ask Sam about the plot of the movie, "Invasion of the Body Snatchers"?

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

5. What does Tom say about his state of mind concerning his sexual interaction with women?

6. What do the arms of the willow tree shadowed on her wall remind Sam of?

7. Why does Sam make her mother's bed up with two fitted bottom sheets?

8. What does Sam think would have happened if her parents had waited to have her until Dwayne got back from the war?

9. How does Emmett end up at Irene's house in Lexington?

10. In Dwayne's journal, what happens when he follows the Vietcong?

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

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 3

Sam believes Emmett has been exposed to Agent Orange. Why does she think this? How does Emmett react? Why does she worry so much about Emmett?

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