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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 does Agatha wake up Lucy when she's been sleeping for a long time?

2. How does Danny describe Lucy when he brings her home for the first time?

3. What does Claudia bake for her father's 59th birthday?

4. When Ian arrives home from college for Lucy's funeral, what does Bee do the first night he is home?

5. How do the children at the Church Day Camp feel about Sister Audrey?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Ian absorbing the reality of Danny's death?

2. How does Agatha try to comfort Thomas?

3. Describe the events surrounding Lucy's death.

4. Why does Agatha hide Lucy's important papers in the jewelry box?

5. What is the setting for the Church's indoor picnic?

6. How did Danny and Lucy meet?

7. What does Doug Bedloe do to find Agatha and Thomas' father?

8. What does Grandma Bedloe find when she and Ian arrive with a basketful of food?

9. Why does Ian take a leave from absence from college to take care of Daphne, Thomas, and Agatha?

10. How does Claudia try to help her mother?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify two characters outside of the Bedloe family who have an important impact on them. How do these characters change the family in significant ways?

Essay Topic 2

Bee says "We've had such extraordinary troubles...and somehow they've turned us ordinary. That's what so hard to figure. We're not a special family anymore." Discuss how Bee saw her family as special before Danny's death, and why she believes they are ordinary afterwards. Do you agree or disagree with Bee's comment? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Did Ian make the wrong choice to tell Danny his suspicions about Lucy? How does he avoid interfering in people's lives after Danny's death?

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