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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. How old is Call in Chapter 1?

2. What is Mr. Rice's profession?

3. What is the Captain's last name?

4. What does Louise say she walks between as she walks down the streets of Rass Island?

5. Why was the Captain not able to do what he wanted with Trudy's cats?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Louise say she is walking by as she walks down the streets of Rass?

2. What do Call and Louise do together to make money?

3. How do the girls in town feel about Mr. Rice?

4. What does the narrator describe in the first chapter?

5. What do Call and Louise find when they return a cat to Auntie Braxton?

6. What does Call start doing without Louise during the summer?

7. How do most women on the island feel about the bay?

8. What do Louise and Call call the strange man after their first visit with him, and why?

9. How does Louise feel after asking her question during the Christmas program rehearsal?

10. What does Louise do with the money she earns after school lets out?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the different stages of Call's relationship with Caroline, and how do these stages affect Louise and the progression of the plot?

Essay Topic 2

Comic relief is a literary tool used well by Paterson in this book. What are some of the key examples of this, and how did these scenes affect the plot of the book?

Essay Topic 3

Trudy Braxton is a minor character whose presence makes a big difference in the plot. How does she accomplish this? What are some ways that her presence, however brief, altered the outcome of the plot? What would have happened differently if Trudy had not been in the book at all?

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