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

2. The teacher of the class at the center of the narrative begins each day by having the students take what action?

3. What is the only object Maddie can see when she looks toward a particular area of the room?

4. Which student does the narrator sarcastically blame for the tardiness of Peggy and Maddie on a particular day?

5. What expression was Wanda wearing as she slowly approached the group of girls gathered around Cecile?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Peggy's motivation for playing the hundred dresses game with Wanda?

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

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

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

5. What is ironic about the phrase Estes always uses to denote the bullying of Wanda?

6. How does the use of an omniscient narrator allow Estes to point out differences between Maddie and Peggy?

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

8. What evidence does the narrator provide for the claim that Peggy is "not really cruel" (14)?

9. What timeline is presented within the chapter entitled "Wanda" in regard to Wanda's absences?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose an object from The Hundred Dresses, such as the wallpaper, the medal, or some other symbolic object and discuss its overall meaning and its connection to themes within the text.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Estes’s use of the motif of sound within her children’s book The Hundred Dresses.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Estes’s use of metaphor, simile, imagery, and other literary devices as a means to send particular thematic messages within the narrative of The Hundred Dresses.

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