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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 counsels the people trying to speak to Jem?

2. How does Spider save Jem from the man at the party?

3. Why does Jem no longer hang out in the places other kids go?

4. Where does Jem consider jumping from in the church?

5. What eats a good portion of Jem's food from Britney's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jem go to Weston?

2. How does Karen die?

3. What makes Jem think that Spider is killed when captured?

4. How does this book end?

5. What major change came over Jem in the hospital?

6. Why is it so ironic for Britney to help Jem?

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

8. Why was Jem not able to go to the cremation of Spider?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What did Jem learn from her lonely trek in the woods, and how did this change her life?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

What are some of the key examples of gratitude in this book, and how do these instances affect that characters involved in those scenes?

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