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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 time does Stanley Basca testify that Davy came to the Finch's on the night of the shooting?

2. How much money does Jeremiah get when he sells his bed?

3. How much does it cost to send a postcard in 1963?

4. How many men in the following days show up at the courthouse armed with old guns to join the posse searching for Davy?

5. What operation did Lurvy have six months before his visit on Swede's birthday?

Short Essay Questions

1. What irregular work did Jeremiah find after being fired from his janitor job?

2. Why doesn't Reuben get a good-bye kiss from Bethany?

3. Where was Jeremiah Land when Reuben was born?

4. What does Reuben buy with the money he earns from tearing down the corncrib?

5. Why did an ambulance have to take Lurvy and another man when Lurvy became sick?

6. How does Jeremiah get money to stock the Airstream with food?

7. Who does Swede have rescue Sunny from the noose and why does that bother Reuben?

8. Why does Reuben resent that Jeremiah healed Mr. Holgren?

9. How did Davy escape?

10. What happens to Swede while Reuben and his father attend church?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how the police respond when they learn about Swede's capture by Israel Fisher and Tommy Basca.

Support your statements with examples and quotes from the book.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how and why Dr. Nokes uses subterfuge to keep Reuben away from his father when Jeremiah has pneumonia.

Support your statements with examples and quotes from the book.

Essay Topic 3

When Davy is arrested, Reuben says that "the whole thing was no less a tornado than the other" referring to a tornado Jeremiah experienced when he was in his twenties. Compare Jeremiah's tornado to the events after the shooting. Support your statements with examples and quotes from the book.

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