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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. Where was the little blue book kept in Chapter 9?

2. At the end of Chapter 11, who teaches Alice how to shoot a shotgun?

3. What is the month in Chapter 1?

4. What does Fred bring Alice to eat in Chapter 12?

5. In Chapter 4, what did Alice leave for Jim Horner?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 9, why did Alice sleep in the dressing room?

2. In Chapter 13, what does Van Cleve do to hurt Margery?

3. What are some gifts that the librarians get for Christmas?

4. In Chapter 1, what happened that made Alice's parents keep her indoors?

5. What questions does Alice ask Pastor McIntosh in Chapter 13 that he cannot answer?

6. What did Izzy say that she wanted to be in Chapter 6?

7. In the Prologue, who always comes to meet Margery on her library trips?

8. In Chapter 8, what did Garrett's mother say to Alice at Garrett's wake?

9. What does Alice take to the Horner girls in Chapter 11, and what does she get in return?

10. What did Alice say in Chapter 1 when Bennett said she should not sign up for the traveling library?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Alice and Fred begin to care for one another. Why does Fred ask Alice to observe fireflies with him? What do fireflies symbolize about their relationship?

Essay Topic 3

What type of man does Bennett seem to be? How is he similar to his father and how is he different from his father?

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