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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 does Betty Jean insist on doing to demonstrate her gratitude for Marlee's father's help with Curtis?

2. What does Liz ask Marlee to try with her for the first time in Chapter 36?

3. What does Marlee tell JT about doing his math homework in Chapter 33?

4. What does Marlee finally tell her mother in Chapter 37?

5. What happens late on Thanksgiving night that is disturbing to Marlee?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does JT react when Marlee finally tells him she will no longer do his math homework for him?

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

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

4. What problems does Liz tell Marlee she experiences once she has to attend the Negro school in her neighborhood?

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

6. What does Red do at the Christmas parade that upsets Marlee?

7. What big news does Judy tell Marlee over Thanksgiving break and what does Marlee think about it?

8. Why is Marlee so upset when her mother suggests she tutor JT in math?

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

10. What does Mrs. Dalton, JT's mother, tell the WEC women about why she is there helping the group?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

When Liz is forced to attend an all-Negro school after she is caught trying to "pass" as white at Marlee's school, the Negro students treat her badly. Write an essay explaining the reasons why the Negro students at Liz's school treat her the way they do.

Essay Topic 3

When Marlee and Liz are attempting to preserve their friendship despite the fact that Marlee is white and Liz is a Negro, their parents and everyone they know in the community forbids it. Write an essay exploring the reasons, as described by Levine in the novel, why people were so against a friendship like theirs in Little Rock in the late 1950s.

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