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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 helps Cap understand regular school in Chapter 12?

2. What does Mrs. Donnelly call middle school in Chapter 7?

3. What month is it at the beginning of Chapter 3?

4. What does Mrs. Donnelly think that Rain would have made because of the way she taught the children at Garland Farm?

5. Who is the bus driver in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sophie say about eighth grade class president?

2. Why did Cap ask about bullfighting as a sport at the middle school, and why did he stop asking about it?

3. How does Cap feel when he witnesses his fight in Chapter 4?

4. How did Rain hurt herself?

5. How does Sophie's date go with Josh?

6. How is Cap being educated and why?

7. What does Sophie's father do for her birthday?

8. How does Sophie describe her mother in Chapter 9?

9. How does Naomi describe Cap in Chapter 10?

10. What is helping Cap understand regular school in Chapter 12?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Naomi describes Cap as sensitive. In what ways is Cap sensitive and how does his sensitivity affect the way that Naomi begins to perceive Cap?

Essay Topic 2

The author uses flashbacks to relate incidents that happened before the story began. In what way does the author use flashbacks to advance the plot and reveal information about characters and how does his choice to use flashbacks impacts the story and develop characters?

Essay Topic 3

Students at Claverage are divided into groups based upon physical appearance or some noticeable characteristic or behavior. How are students stereotyped in these ways, and how does the stereotyping affect students and their relationships with one another?

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