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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. For which of the following countries does Melody note knowing the average summer temperature?

2. How many flavors does Danny’s Ice Cream offer?

3. With which color is Melody’s camp cabin associated?

4. Where does Trinity report having lived?

5. Which Fiery Falcon is the first to wake on the first morning of camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason does Trinity give for having a prosthetic leg?

2. How does Melody describe the smell of camp?

3. What smell does Melody note her mother has?

4. What does Melody’s father note are Ohio’s two major crops?

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

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

7. How do Melody’s parents distract Penny from the sadness of leaving her sister at camp?

8. Why does Melody note appreciating being allowed to bathe herself?

9. The author dedicates the novel to her daughters. What does she note that they taught her to appreciate?

10. Why does Melody note liking audiobooks?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Notably, while the protagonist’s mother appears and is named in the novel, her father appears but is not named. What significance accrues to the failure to name him, and how does it present itself?

Essay Topic 2

Melody wryly muses “Lotta Titanic fans at this camp” (144). What effect does the persistent reference to that film have for the reader? How does that effect manifest?

Essay Topic 3

Overall, what is the most important theme of Out of My Heart. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

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