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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 Katie's father break when he is angry?

2. What does Amber think of Katie and Silly's pretend band?

3. Who does Katie invite to go camping with her after Lynn gets sick?

4. What is Lynn's eulogy supposed to end with?

5. What does Katie like about the hatchery her father works at?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Katie find out what is really wrong with Lynn?

2. What does Katie hear the night after the picnic?

3. What happens when Katie's mother calls from the hospital while Fumi and Katsu are watching Katie and Sammy?

4. What do Katie and Sammy do at the hatchery?

5. What does Katie realize that means, to her, she is now a big girl?

6. What happens when Uncle Katsu gets the truck stuck on a cliff?

7. What does Katie realize while she washes dishes after Lynn's body is taken away?

8. What does Katie write in her essay about Lynn?

9. How does this book end?

10. What does Hank do when they get to the hospital?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What happens at the funeral, and what significance does this have on the plot? Who is involved in the scene there, and what does this monumental event symbolize?

Essay Topic 2

This book takes place in a few different settings. Describe some of these settings and how they affected the course of the plot. Why might Cynthia Kadohata have chosen these particular places for this plot to take place?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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