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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. Why does Cap get sent to Mr. Kasigi's office in Chapter 4?

2. What color cream is Sophie smearing on her face when Cap blunders into her room in Chapter 4?

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

4. Where does the second boy punch the first boy at the beginning of Chapter 4?

5. How old was Cap when Rain taught him to drive?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Cap's first experience with a police officer?

5. How does Cap get locked in a courtyard off the library and what does he do until he is rescued?

6. What is Mrs. Donnelly's experience with Garland Farm?

7. Why does Cap wish that he could talk with Rain more often?

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

9. How does Zach describe himself?

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

Cap experiences conflicts as he attends middle school and lives with the Donnelly’s. What are some of the conflicts that Cap deals with, and what do these conflicts reveal about Cap and the type of person that he is?

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

Cap has been raised in seclusion with his grandmother. How has the way that Cap has been raised had positive and negative influences in his life, and how have those influences made Cap the person he is?

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