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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 the name of Davy's girlfriend who is beaten in the girls' locker room?

2. In what year was Reuben born?

3. Where is Davy put in jail?

4. Who wrote the book that Stube was reading the night that Davy escaped.

5. Where does Jeremiah suggest the family move when he is struggling with pneumonia?

Short Essay Questions

1. What presents does Swede receive for her birthday?

2. How did Davy escape?

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

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

5. What does Reuben hear and see when he gets up in the night at the Schultz's to use the outhouse?

6. What does Reuben feel when he touches his dad during the revival service held by Rev. Johnny Latt?

7. Why are Swede's sugar cookies sometimes unorthodox?

8. Why is Jeremiah fired from his job as janitor at the elementary school?

9. What does Stanley Basca tell that Davy did the night of the shooting?

10. What happened when Swede chases the goose shot by Reuben?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how Reuben's asthma makes him feel, how he deals with the asthma, and how the asthma is treated.

Support your statements with examples and quotes from the book.

Essay Topic 2

When Reuben sees state troopers at gas stations, he begins to realize that someone is waging a war against his family. Discuss why a war is being waged against the Lands. Support your statements with examples and quotes from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Extraordinary events occur frequently in the novel. Argue whether these events are miracles using examples from the book to support your position.

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