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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. Who owns the place where Mother works?

2. What does the woman who watches Katie during the day call her?

3. What is the name of the girl who talks to Katie in the parking lot?

4. What is Katie's favorite book?

5. Where does Lynn stay for the first week of summer?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lynn hope to do to make money when she is older?

2. What does Katsu do in Nashville, and why?

3. What does Lynn tell Katie when she wakes up after the rabbit hunt, and how does Katie feel about this?

4. What does Lynn dream about while she is sick?

5. What kind of discrimination is found in the plant where Mother works?

6. What do Katie and Lynn do while waiting in the car in St. Louis?

7. What does Katie do that makes her parents angry with her, and how does she respond?

8. What is Father's job at the hatchery?

9. What does Katie do with Sammy at night?

10. What does the woman at the hotel say when Father tries to rent a room?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Anger was a vice that reared its ugly head a number of times in this book. What are some examples of this, and how is the plot altered because of these incidents?

Essay Topic 3

Which character do you relate with the most in this book? Why is this? How does this character change throughout the book?

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