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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 Stew Meat do after he gets out his card?

2. What does Sam offer to do?

3. How does Adam's Pa react to the wish Adam made?

4. Who is at Adam's house when he arrives with the wagon?

5. What does Sam say when Rowena asks him to wait until she returns?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Adam hear about the well on his family's farm and what does he suggest to his pa about the situation?

2. What does Adam do after school and how do Eunice and Agatha and others treat him?

3. What surprises Adam and his mother?

4. What does Sam bring back for Henry and what does he say when Rowena tells Sam about what Henry said to her?

5. What happens when Polly becomes desperate?

6. What does Adam's ma tell him when he goes down to breakfast?

7. What does one of the townspeople who come to see what is happening at Adam's family's farm say that causes Adam to feel guilty?

8. What does Stew Meat realize and what does he do?

9. What does Adam hear as he is going to bed and what does his pa say about it?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Oftentimes, a book has more of a character-driven plot rather than action driven, and often times the other way. Some books seem to balance the two. Discuss the following:

1. What do you think it means to say that a plot is character driven? Action driven?

2. How do you think a plot differs if it is character driven versus action driven?

3. Which type of plot do you find more interesting? Why?

4. Do you think it is possible to have a plot where action and character development share equal time? Why or why not.

5. What type of plot do you think The Wish Giveris? Explain your response.

Essay Topic 2

Each of the three "tales" in this collection is, essentially, a fable - that is, a story that illustrates a particular moral lesson or aspect of everyday existence. In other words, the story is told with the specific purpose of teaching the reader.

1. Discuss the moral and/or lesson that Polly's behavior has illustrated. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

2. Discuss the moral and/or lesson that Rowena's behavior has illustrated. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

3. Discuss the moral and/or lesson that Polly's behavior has illustrated. Use examples from the text and your own life to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Over the course of "The Wish Maker", all three young people grow as a person in both complexity and understanding. "The Wish Giver" might be considered a slice of their larger story of their "coming of age." It might be said that "The Wish Giver" is a "bildungsroman" of the three young wish users. Discuss the following:

1. Define Bildungsroman, or "Coming of Age," and give several examples from literature you have read.

2. Trace and analyze the character of one of the three young people as she/he changes from a more carefree, innocent child to a wiser, young person. What are the significant events that change them?

3. After thoroughly analyzing one of the three's growth throughout "The Wish Maker", do you think "The Wish Giver" could be considered their Coming of Age story? Why or why not?

4. Are there any other characters in "The Wish Giver" who go through a Coming of Age experience? Who? Why do you think so?

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