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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 stories did Pete Bligh like in Chapter 10?

2. How many miles deep does someone need to go in the forest below Arnott's Ridge to find a dense silence?

3. In Chapter 6, how old was Margery?

4. In Chapter 15, what recipe is in a magazine that Doreen Abney wants?

5. How far of a walk did Alice have to the library in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where was the little blue book kept in Chapter 9 when someone was not reading it?

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

3. In Chapter 12, who steps up to help the librarians and why?

4. In Chapter 5, how was Izzy doing as a librarian?

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

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

7. What did Kathleen Bligh ask Alice to do in Chapter 4, and what were the results?

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

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

10. In Chapter 6, why did Alice no longer enjoy the weekly church dinners?

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 Giver of Stars? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

Essay Topic 2

Circumstantial evidence is used to arrest Margery. How is circumstantial evidence used to justify arresting Margery? Was there enough probable cause to arrest her?

Essay Topic 3

The climax in a novel is the highest point of tension and a turning point. What is the climax of the novel and why is that incident the climax?

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