View a FREE sample

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 mutter when Adam sits behind her in class?

2. What does Adam notice at four neighboring farms?

3. What does Sam offer to do?

4. What does Sam suggest they do for Henry?

5. About what does Sam learn in the library?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Rowena's parents hear and then learn when they investigate?

2. What does Sam say he's been doing in the library and with what result?

3. What greets Adam when he wakes the next morning?

4. What does Adam's father say about Uncle Poot and what is Adam's response?

5. What will happen eventually if the water does not stop flowing?

6. What does Adam promise his mother and what does this promise prompt Adam to do?

7. What does Stew Meat say happens just as he is closing his store?

8. What does Rowena hear about Adam at a party and what is her thought about it?

9. What does Rowena suggest looking for and what does Sam say about that?

10. What surprises Adam and his mother?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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 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?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 973 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample