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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 game does Marlee let Sally win at Sally's party?

2. What new friend does Liz tell Marlee about in Chapter 33?

3. Who is Marlee's substitute teacher when she comes back to school after being sick?

4. What do Marlee, JT and Red stumble across in the woods in Chapter 40?

5. Who picks up Marlee from Sally's party?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Liz ask Marlee to do in exchange for Liz catching crawdads with Marlee?

2. How does Marlee's expectation of the plane ride her father gives the family compare with her actual experience of the journey?

3. Why does Marlee ask her mother to come pick her up from Sally's roller-skating party?

4. How does Marlee feel about Liz's budding relationship with Curtis?

5. What idea does Marlee come up with to help Liz be quiet in tense situations?

6. What event finally forces Marlee to tell her parents that she has been secretly meeting Liz for months?

7. What purpose does Marlee help Ms. Winthrop canvass her neighborhood for?

8. What is the reason Marlee's father gives when she asks him why he helped Curtis get out of jail?

9. What did Marlee hope would come of her writing down a Bible verse and putting it in her mother's purse?

10. Why does Liz not understand why Marlee stopped liking JT?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

For Marlee, math is more than just a subject she loves - she also uses it as a tactic to calm her social anxiety and as a way to form codes which allow her to communicate secretly with Liz. Write an essay exploring the different ways math is essential to Marlee's character and well-being.

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the book, Marlee struggles to find her voice so she can stand up for what she believes in. In contrast, Liz struggles to suppress her voice, because she finds herself in perilous situations as a young Negro girl who speaks her mind. Write an essay comparing and contrasting the nature and meaning of Marlee's and Liz's struggles.

Essay Topic 3

In the beginning of the book, Marlee's mother Maurine initially opposes school integration, but by the novel's end she actively supports it. Write an essay analyzing the evolution of Marlee's mother's ideas about integration and racial equality.

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