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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. In Chapter 15, what color horse is spooked by a plane?
2. Where did Miss Smith go to college?
3. Who is the only person who says she will take Jamie?
4. What does Miss Smith give Jamie and Ada to wear in Chapter 7?
5. In Chapter 12 when Ada first successfully fits a bridle on Butter, what does she feed him?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Jamie say about all the kids leaving in Chapter 2?
2. What happens at the airfield at the beginning of Chapter 17?
3. What does the doctor say about Ada's foot in Chapter 8?
4. In Chapter 21, why does Grimes say that Butter would not do more than walk?
5. In Chapter 10, what does Ada do when she goes outside?
6. Why do the church bells go off in Chapter 9?
7. In Chapter 2, where does Ada's mother send her when she wants to punish Ada?
8. In Chapter 20, how does Ada feel when Miss Smith puts her arm around Ada?
9. In Chapter 9, who does Miss Smith say that Becky was?
10. Why does Jamie's teacher tie his wrist to his chair in Chapter 18?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When Ada breaks the sewing machine, she is terrified and goes to hide under a bed. How does Ada punish herself in that situation? How often does Ada use self-punishment for imagined wrongs that she does and why? How does she finally learn to deal with her mistakes without punishing herself?
Essay Topic 2
Many chapters in the novel give a hint of an event to come. Do those hints cause suspense or are they spoilers that ruin the suspense of what is going to happen next? Why?
Essay Topic 3
Ada’s mother has always told Ada that she will be judged by her handicap inferring that people are judged based upon how they look. How is Ada judged by those who live around her apartment in London? How is she judged by a teacher in the village? How is Jamie judged for writing with his left hand? Why is it harmful to judge people based upon appearance?
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