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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 many apple trees were growing before the Water boys plowed them up?

2. What does Coop tell Sunny he misses from Lou's?

3. How many hairdressers and barbers are at Manzanar?

4. How many ducks could Snow shoot in an hour?

5. During the second week after Sunny's accident, what is Schiff doing when Sunny finds him in the house?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Sunny and Cas travel to New York?

2. How is Passover celebrated at Manzanar?

3. What does Schiff learn about Suzy and Stryker from the Commander and his wife?

4. How does Snow shoot Rhodes in "The Eight Property of Thirst"?

5. Where was Snow the night Rocky tried to blow up the aqueduct and what did Snow do?

6. What did Schiff's parents bring with them when they immigrated to the United States?

7. What were performances like when Cas went on tour in Scandinavia?

8. What did Sunny ask herself about those days in Paris later when she returned home and how did she try to figure out what she had thought then?

9. Why do the Gunderson's bring Sunny to Three Chairs?

10. What is the barracks like that Schiff lives in at the camp?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Schiff enlists in the Army. Why does Schiff enlist?

Essay Topic 2

Accumulation is a literary device that allows an author to gather scattered ideas in a literary work and gradually build on information readers need to know. From whose perspective are various sections told? How does each section add information? How does the use of multiple viewpoints allow Wiggins to use accumulation to advance the plot and provide important details to readers?

Essay Topic 3

Snow is a character in the background until "The Eighth Property of Thirst." Then Wiggins reveals his background and who he is. How and why Snow does change from a flat to a round character in “The Eighth Property of Thirst”? Why is it important to know more about him and who he is?

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