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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 game does the Captain teach Caroline and Louise?

2. To where does Louise get a scholarship?

3. What does Grandmother do when Louise stands up for her mother?

4. What does the Captain teach Louise when she refuses to go to school?

5. What does Louise study about people while in school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Louise like most about the Captain, and why?

2. What does the Captain do to try to calm Louise's grandmother during the storm, and how does she respond?

3. Why does Louise's grandmother dislike the Captain?

4. How does Louise feel when she begins working for her father?

5. What does Louise say about the boredom she feels at school?

6. Who does the Captain marry, and why?

7. What does the Captain choose to do with Trudy's money after her death?

8. What does Louise name her first child, and why?

9. How does Grandmother react after the news of Hiroshima?

10. What does Louise learn has happened after the storm is over?

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

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the characters touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 3

Many different characters in this book are persuaded to do things that they would not have done of their own accord. What are some of these instances, and how did persuasion affect the course of the plot?

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