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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 does Rebecca do to stay warm?

2. Why will Oliver not be at Rebecca's fifteenth birthday?

3. On the highway between the Grand Canyon and Salt Lake City, who does Jane race against?

4. What would their father do when he came home drunk?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jane end up covered in manure?

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

3. How does Jane feel about her father's death?

4. How does Oliver feel about his abilities at intercepting Jane and Rebecca?

5. Why does Sam have surgery as a child?

6. What happens when Rebecca arrives at the Spregg home?

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

8. What does Hadley reveal about Sam? How does the reader know that Hadley is attracted to Rebecca?

9. Where does Jane go after the plane crash? What takes place here?

10. What does Sam recall about his childhood?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Foreshadowing is frequently found in this story.

Part 1) Give two examples of foreshadowing. Explain what these examples foreshadow.

Part 2) What is the purpose of the foreshadowing in this book? What feelings does it evoke in the reader? Why?

Part 3) Why is foreshadowing used frequently? Does it enhance the story? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Contrasts exist throughout this story.

Part 1) Describe two contrasts from this story. How are they contrasting?

Part 2) What is the purpose of these contrasts? How do they enhance the story?

Part 3) How do these contrasts affect the characters and their relationships?

Essay Topic 3

Both Sam and Jane experience violence in their pasts.

Part 1) Describe the violence from which they suffer. How have they been affected by this violence?

Part 2) How does this suffering affect their relationships with others? How does it affect how they feel about themselves?

Part 3) How does this history of violence, at first, push them away from each other and then bring them together? Why does this happen?

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