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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. On what day of the week do Peggy and Maddie notice that Wanda has not been in class for a few days?

2. The sun shining on the body of water at the end of Maple Street had turned the water from blue to what color?

3. Wanda generally leans against what type of structure as she waits in a sunny spot for the school bell to ring?

4. What color "toboggan cap" (23) does Wanda always wear?

5. When Peggy asks Wanda the questions associated with the dresses game, she does so using what kind of voice?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the major element of their lives that Maddie and Wanda have in common?

2. Why is Maddie unable to concentrate on her arithmetic assignment at the beginning of the chapter entited "A Bright Blue Day"?

3. How does the sound motif appear within the chapter entitled "A Bright Blue Day"?

4. Unpack Maddie's disqualification of Wanda as "an ordinary person" (14). What does she truly mean?

5. How does the illustration on the final page of the chapter entitled "The Dresses Game" intertwine with one the chapter's themes?

6. For what reason does Maddie go along with the bullying of Wanda even though she knows that it is wrong?

7. Discuss the significance of names within the narrative.

8. What evidence suggests that English may not be Wanda's first language?

9. What does Maddie suspect about the motivation for Wanda's announcement about her 100 dresses?

10. How is the selfishness present within the human condition portrayed in the chapter entitled "The Dresses Game"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sensory details are used frequently by Estes in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative of The Hundred Dresses. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Estes’s creation of vivid characters to populate the narrative.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how and why Estes instills three different humanist messages into the narrative of The Hundred Dresses.

Essay Topic 3

William Faulkner once famously claimed that the most important literature deals with the subject of the human heart in conflict with itself. Explain how the theme of Human versus Self is demonstrated within Estes’s story The Hundred Dresses. Create a decisive, arguable claim and prove it with quotes from the story.

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