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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. How old is Donald during the war?

2. What does Josephine ask Joe to do?

3. What do children begin to see the following New Year's in the window at the mansion?

4. Who does Joe signal to on the job?

5. What happens to Alan and his grandparents on their way to Jamestown?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the yellow-orange flower's significance.

2. What do people begin to see at New Year's in "The Beckoning Hands"?

3. What is the significance of Whedbee's close attention to the lights in "The Mysterious Maco Lights"?

4. What is Josephine's dying request?

5. What happens to Alan and his grandparents at the end of "The Fountain of Mercy"?

6. What is at conflict in "The Legend of Mattamuskeet Lake"?

7. Who is Alan Scott?

8. Why did Donald travel to America?

9. How does Caroline's mother die?

10. Why does the Queen of Sounds explode?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze and discuss the role that American wars play throughout the stories in "Outer Banks Mysteries and Seaside Stories". How is history a critical element to the content of this book?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss and analyze the motif of prayer throughout "Outer Banks Mysteries and Seaside Stories" and what its affects seem to be on those who use it and those who do not.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss and explain the significance of the motif of peril on water and what Whedbee is suggesting with this repeated image and conflict for the character's.

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