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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 type of car do the Van Cleves have?
2. In Chapter 5, what injury did Sven say that William Kenworth had?
3. If the mining company took a chunk out of the north side of the ridge in Chapter 5, how many families would lose their homes?
4. In Chapter 1, how long had Alice been riding horses?
5. How old was Margery when her father shot her with his hunting rifle?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the first memory Margery had?
2. What does Alice take to the Horner girls in Chapter 11, and what does she get in return?
3. How does Fred make a way for Alice to have dinner with him in Chapter 15?
4. Where was the little blue book kept in Chapter 9 when someone was not reading it?
5. Why was a town meeting held in Chapter 8?
6. How did Margery learn to read?
7. In Chapter 13, what does Van Cleve do to hurt Margery?
8. In Chapter 12, who steps up to help the librarians and why?
9. In Chapter 1, what happened that made Alice's parents keep her indoors?
10. In Chapter 9, why did Alice sleep in the dressing room?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analogies are used to compare an unfamiliar object or idea to a familiar one in an attempt to explain the unfamiliar. How does the author use analogies in The Giver of Stars? How do analogies help readers understand unfamiliar ideas or understand events or characters?
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 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 Giver of Stars? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?
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