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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. Which team is first to get a balloon to their goal in Balloon Ball?

2. What name is given to the Fiery Falcons’ unwelcome cabin visitor?

3. What breed of horse does Noah ride?

4. Which Fiery Falcon is the first to introduce herself to the Purple Panthers?

5. Upon the sight of what in the cabin does Karyn scream?

Short Essay Questions

1. To what does Melody ascribe her nighttime need to visit the latrine?

2. How does Melody mount her horse?

3. What reputation does Melody note the Fiery Falcons are developing at camp?

4. How does Melody describe the smell of jazz?

5. How does Karyn note her father had tried to rid himself of skunk smell?

6. What evidence against Butterscotch’s fierceness does Melody present?

7. What revelation regarding cookies does Melody have at camp?

8. What does Carter cite as the best reason to be a boat captain?

9. What earns Malik his nickname of Candy Man?

10. How do the Panthers clean themselves of the skunk smell?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the significance of the protagonist’s name.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Explicate the significance of the protagonist’s cabin-mates’ names.

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