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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 often does the ringleader of the bullies look for and torment Wanda once the hundred dresses game begins?
2. Next to which character is Maddie standing when Wanda gets the attention of Peggy?
3. Wanda generally leans against what type of structure as she waits in a sunny spot for the school bell to ring?
4. In which classroom is the narrative set?
5. With whom does Wanda live in a small frame house not far beyond the home of old man Svenson?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the major element of their lives that Maddie and Wanda have in common?
2. What evidence does the narrator provide for the claim that Peggy is "not really cruel" (14)?
3. What is ironic about the phrase Estes always uses to denote the bullying of Wanda?
4. How does the use of an omniscient narrator allow Estes to point out differences between Maddie and Peggy?
5. What is the significance of the chapter title for "A Bright Blue Day" (19)?
6. Describe an instance when Estes uses a simile to indicate a character's emotional state.
7. For what reason does Maddie go along with the bullying of Wanda even though she knows that it is wrong?
8. What is Peggy's motivation for playing the hundred dresses game with Wanda?
9. Discuss the language Estes uses to portray the act of bullying and her purpose for using this language.
10. How does Wanda demonstrate courage in the face of great fear on the day of the hundred dresses game's invention?
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 Estes’s use of the motif of sound within her children’s book The Hundred Dresses.
Essay Topic 3
Explicate the theme of courage within The Hundred Dresses. What is Estes’s message regarding courage and how do you know?
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