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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 Rowena put in the pocket of her best dress?

2. With what does Coven Tree have experience?

3. What do Leland and Lenora say they saw Rowena doing?

4. Where does the narrator first encounter Thaddeus Blinn?

5. Who offers an observation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Stew Meat do with his card?

2. About what does Polly begin to worry and what does she decide to do?

3. What does Polly talk about at tea, and what do Eunice and Agatha talk about?

4. What do Agatha and Eunice try to do at tea the next day and how does Polly respond?

5. What is the Coven Tree Church Social and who is allowed to set up a booth there?

6. How does Polly impress her teacher?

7. How does Sam react to hearing Henry Piper's name?

8. What does Rowena take Henry for breakfast and how does he like it?

9. From what is the town's name derived?

10. What happens when Polly starts complaining to her mother the next morning about the burned toast?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the following:

1. What do you think are the characteristics of a successful novel?

2. Analyze and discuss "The Wish Giver" based upon the criteria you decide upon in #1 and judge if "The Wish Giver" is a successful novel.

3. Do you think the criteria for a successful novel should be different if it is written for adults versus young adults? Why or why not? Would most adults consider The Wish Giver a successful novel? What about young teens?

Essay Topic 2

The central character in each tale experiences a particularly challenging confrontation with his / her inability to achieve a driving desire, impulsively uses the wishing card s/he purchased from Thaddeus Blinn, and begins to suffer the consequences of that impulse. In this context, structure and theme can be seen to interrelate, the principle of cause and effect (i.e. this action causing that reaction causing this action, and so on and so on) coming into play in order to reinforce the work's central thematic contention that blindly following impulse is dangerous.

1. Chose one of the characters of Polly, Rowena or Adam and discuss, in depths ways in which their desire could have been achieved without a wish card. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Do you think some of the consequences of using the wish card might still have happened if the characters had never met Blinn? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Do you think impulsive behavior always has negative consequences? Why or why not? Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss one of the following:

1. Thoroughly analyze how the setting informs the plot in "The Wish Maker".

2. Trace and analyze one major theme of "The Wish Maker". How is the theme represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

3. Trace and analyze two secondary themes of "The Wish Maker". How are the themes represented by symbolism? By the characters' behaviors? By the action?

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