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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 Dwight blame his poor aim on at the rifle club?

2. What did the note from Sister James say?

3. What is the significance of Dwight's story about the salmon that risk their lives on their journey to Chinook, spawn, and then die?

4. Why do Toby and his mother go to a house belonging to two strange men?

5. How does Dwight react when Rosemary wins the turkey shoot?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Toby's attitude toward Dwight?

2. What sins does Toby confess before his baptism? Why does he confess these sins?

3. What activities do Rosemary and Dwight participate in at the local rifle club? How well do they perform?

4. What do Toby and his mother believe about their new life in Utah?

5. Describe Toby's basketball game against Van Horn.

6. What happens when Toby wants to take Roy's gun when he and his mother prepare to leave Roy's house?

7. Describe the boys Toby is friends with in Seattle.

8. How does the Vice Principal find out who vandalized the bathroom wall?

9. Why do Norma and Bobby Crow take Toby to his basketball games? How does Toby feel about it?

10. Why do Toby, Silver, and Taylor watch the Mickey Mouse Club?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Whenever Rosemary suggests that Toby go for a ride with Dwight, Toby remembers Dwight taking Champion for a ride and shooting him. What kind of relationship does Toby have with Champion? How are Toby and Champion similar? How are they different? How are they both victims of Dwight's indifference and cruelty?

Essay Topic 2

Initially, Geoffrey and Toby do not have much of a relationship. How do we know this? What happens that makes Toby more open to communicating with his brother? By the end of the book, in what ways has Geoffrey and Toby's relationship changed?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Dwight, Mr. Howard, and Roy. What makes these men different from each other? Describe, with specific examples, the effect they have on Toby's life.

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