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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 Britney ask Jem?

2. Who stops a man who will soon die from confronting Jem in the church?

3. Who brings Spider to the church?

4. What does the older man who works with Simon want Jem to do?

5. How does Jem learn about what her son knows about her?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Spider get captured?

2. What makes Jem consider suicide?

3. Why do Jem and Spider look so guilty to the police?

4. How does Jem feel when Spider says others may have Jem's gift?

5. What does Jem say when Britney asks her about her foster mother?

6. What good does Anne say can come from Jem's gift?

7. What brings Jem to understand a bit of her mother's dependency on drugs?

8. What happens when Jem tries to eat after splitting up from Spider?

9. How does Karen respond when she hears about Jem's power?

10. How does Jem stop the people in the church from clamoring around her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does Jem feel about friendship, and why is this so central to the plot?

Essay Topic 2

What was Jem's ability, and how did it shape her life for good and bad?

Essay Topic 3

Anne presented a very interesting and unique philosophy on life. What was this philosophy, and how did this different idealism affect the people around her?

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