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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 Kaitlin's father feel to be home?

2. Why does Kaitlin go to see Becky in Chapter 27?

3. Who does Kaitlin go to see at the end of Chapter 22?

4. What does Kaitlin wonder about at the end of Chapter 20?

5. What does Kaitlin tell her family about Bram in Chapter 25?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Malones talk about at dinner in Chapter 25?

2. What does Kaitlin realize about herself in Chapter 17?

3. Where does Kaitlin go snooping in Chapter 21 and why?

4. What does Kaitlin fail to do in Chapter 20?

5. What does Kaitlin's mother think will happen when Bram finally finds out who Kaitlin is?

6. Why does Kaitlin curse her ancestors in Chapter 17?

7. How does the story end?

8. What does Kaitlin say she hopes for in Chapter 27?

9. What does Bram tell Kaitlin about the land deal in Chapter 22?

10. According to Garner, what happened on the night Robert Crutchfield died?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the motif of friendship in the novel Scribbler of Dreams. Is friendship important to Kaitlin? Who are her friends? How does she help her friends and how do they help her?

Essay Topic 2

Deception is a theme of the novel. Kaitlin spends the better part of the novel deceiving those around her. How does Pearson use deception to keep the suspense and mystery alive in the story and keep the plot moving?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and interpret the secondary characters of the novel. Who are they and what are their defining character traits? How are they related to Kaitlin? What is their role in the novel?

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