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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 many times a week did Bennett play baseball in Chapter 6?

2. What does Jim Horner trade for the dolls Alice brings his girls in Chapter 11?

3. How does Bluey die?

4. In Chapter 3, what time does Alice get up in the morning?

5. What type of bird does Bennett think that Alice sees at the end of Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. At the end of Chapter 14, why does Margery tell Sven not to come over?

3. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, what did agents for land companies do in Kentucky?

4. In Chapter 11, what did Van Cleve do to Alice and why?

5. Why was a town meeting held in Chapter 8?

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

7. How does Fred make a way for Alice to have dinner with him in Chapter 15?

8. What might a librarian wear to keep warm in Chapter 14?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Kathleen struggles after her husband dies. What type of relationship did Kathleen and her husband have? How does losing him affect her? Why does she grieve so?

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