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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 do the Cosgroves use their insurance money to do?

2. How does Jane's father react when Jane scares away the animals?

3. How do Jane and Rebecca celebrate Rebecca's fifteenth birthday?

4. Why does Sam react rudely, driving Jane from the table?

5. Rebecca spies on Sam and Jane who are where?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jane now act around Sam?

2. Where do Oliver and Jane long to be?

3. What does Sam recall about his childhood?

4. Why does Sam have surgery as a child?

5. How do Jane and Rebecca celebrate Rebecca's fifteenth birthday?

6. Why does Oliver think he has to intercept Jane and Rebecca before they reach Joley?

7. Why does Joley help Jane?

8. What happens when Jane and Rebecca meet Joseph Tall Neck?

9. What happens when Jane arrives at the next location to meet Jake?

10. How does Jane end up covered in manure?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jane has two love interests.

Part 1) Who are her two love interests? Compare her two love interests.

Part 2) How does Jane find herself with two love interests? What are her thoughts about these two men? What are others' thoughts about these two men?

Part 3) How is her life affected by these two men? Can it ever go back to the way it was? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Hadley dies.

Part 1) How does Hadley die? What events lead up to his death? How could his death have been prevented?

Part 2) What does his death represent? How does his death affect the other characters in the story? Why are they affected this way?

Part 3) His death is learned early in the book. Other chapters after this explain the events leading up to his death. How does knowing he will die affect your feelings when reading about the events leading up to his death?

Essay Topic 3

There are references to Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden.

Part 1) When is there reference to Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden? Is this reference direct or indirect? Explain.

Part 2) What is the purpose of this reference? How does it affect the rest of the story?

Part 3) What message is sent to the audience through this reference? Must one have knowledge of this Biblical story to fully understand this novel? Why or why not?

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