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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 was Betty Jean's son Curtis falsely arrested for?
2. What happens late on Thanksgiving night that is disturbing to Marlee?
3. What effect does Marlee's mother's speech have on her?
4. Who picks up Marlee from Sally's party?
5. What does Sally tell Marlee she actually did with her hairbrush after Liz used it?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Marlee feel about Liz's budding relationship with Curtis?
2. What did Betty Jean tell Marlee about what the NAACP had advised Negroes about sending their children to private segregated schools?
3. What event finally forces Marlee to tell her parents that she has been secretly meeting Liz for months?
4. Why does Marlee walk into the woods when she realizes JT and Red have followed her to the rock crusher?
5. What purpose does Marlee help Ms. Winthrop canvass her neighborhood for?
6. What did Marlee hope would come of her writing down a Bible verse and putting it in her mother's purse?
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. How does JT react when Marlee finally tells him she will no longer do his math homework for him?
10. Why does Marlee ask her mother to come pick her up from Sally's roller-skating party?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Levine focuses heavily on the impact women had on the politics surrounding racial issues and integration in the late 1950s in Little Rock. Write an essay exploring the major influences women had on the direction of both the pro-integration and pro-segregation movements in Little Rock in the late 1950s as they are described in this novel.
Essay Topic 2
How did Levine's choice to tell the story solely from Marlee's point of view affect the audience's understanding of the book's themes? Write an essay explaining your answer.
Essay Topic 3
Marlee has close relationships to both of her siblings, her sister Judy and her brother David. By the end of the novel, which one of them do you think she has more in common with? Write an essay explaining your answer.
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