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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. Who is born on Ian's birthday, January 2?

2. What does Ian envy about the man he meets on his job who is installing cabinets?

3. Who visits Agatha and Thomas with a picnic basket of fried chicken and chocolate cake while their mother naps?

4. What does Bee think her family has turned into now that Danny is gone?

5. Who starts a fire in the attic while trying to install an intercom?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Ian's suspicions about Lucy's behavior influence Danny's death?

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

3. How does Doug get involved with the foreigners on Waverly Street?

4. What does "difficult ages" mean to Bee and why do they have their own table at family celebrations?

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

6. Why does Thomas follow the rule of not eating sugar so that he will be considered a good Christian?

7. Explain how Reverend Emmett founded The Church of the Second Chance.

8. Describe the way things have changed in the Bedloe household by the Christmas after Lucy death.

9. How does Ian show himself to be a hero at the Church of the Second Chance indoor picnic?

10. Explain how Agatha tries to care for her baby sister, Daphne.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What specific details are used to describe Ariana Pennington? What is it about her that makes the children believe she would be a perfect wife for Ian? Why does Ian seem uninterested?

Essay Topic 2

Ian describes Daphne as a fierce little girl who had to fend for herself as a child. Discuss how this is reflected in Daphne's desire to take chances and live fully as a young woman.

Essay Topic 3

What kind of person is Agatha? Do you think she had a difficult life, and how did her life shape her as a person?

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