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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 is noted as the first official camp activity?

2. With which of the following does Chapter 17 begin?

3. With which of the following does Chapter 1 begin?

4. With which of the following does Chapter 18 begin?

5. With which of the following does Chapter 15 begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. What smell does Melody note her mother has?

2. Why does Melody worry about food in new places?

3. What reason does Melody give for wanting to be early?

4. Why does Diane grumble about shoes she buys for Melody?

5. What does Sage describe as her claim to fame?

6. Why does Athena note applesauce is magic?

7. For what reason does Melody note not feeling left out as Penny and Valencia chase fireflies?

8. How does Melody regard the subjects of portraits at the art museum?

9. What reason does Melody posit for Cassie’s hair coloring?

10. What reasons does Melody give for wanting to attend camp?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

To what extent do the protagonist and her cabin-mates fill the roles of the traditional four humor / temperament character group, and what effects on the narrative does it have that they do to the extent that they do? How are those effects evidenced?

Essay Topic 2

Explicate the significance of the protagonist’s counselor’s name.

Essay Topic 3

Readerly attention focuses on the following passage:

Special needs, I was thinking. I don’t like that term. It sounds so…so…vague. It’s like people without special needs decided that if they made the term vague enough, it wouldn’t hurt anybody’s feelings. But when you’re the person the term is used for, it makes you feel less than yourself. It makes me feel less than myself. Yeah, I’m special. And yes, I have needs. But don’t make that my label (20).

What purpose does the passage serve in the novel, and how is that purpose enacted?

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