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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 Duncan and then Matthew stab with a knife in Chapter 9?

2. Under what type of tree did the Langs bury Arthur?

3. What does Hal Lang do for a living?

4. What type of dog was Arthur?

5. When did Zoe start going out with Luke?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Lang children do in school?

2. What does Duncan tell the detective about the man who nearly stopped when he went to get help for the boy?

3. In Chapter 7, what happens when Zoe goes to Oxford?

4. What does Zoe remember about dating Luke?

5. Who does Zoe follow in Chapter 15?

6. What does Duncan learn about his birth mother in Chapter 14?

7. What good and bad happened when a neighbor's dog bit Duncan?

8. What do the Langs learn about Karel's father, Frank, when he comes to visit?

9. What do Matthew, Zoe, and Duncan find when they are walking home from school?

10. In Chapter 5, what does Matthew find when he goes back to the field where they found Karel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

Essay Topic 2

Conflicts between characters are often caused by a problem. What are some conflicts that occur in the novel? Are the conflicts in the book mostly man vs. man, man vs. nature, or man vs. self? Are they internal or external conflicts?

Essay Topic 3

Zoe seems to be searching for something. What does Zoe seem to be searching for? What does her search reveal about the nature of love?

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