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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 color paint does Miranda think she wants on the walls of her bedroom?

2. What does Miranda wear when she gets dressed at the beginning of Chapter 2?

3. When does Miranda look at the dollhouse in Chapter 3?

4. After Philip keeled over while teaching a class, how many stitches did he have to have?

5. What is the weather like outside the dollhouse when the first person Miranda is watching in Chapter 2 disappears?

Short Essay Questions

1. What once happened, which Miranda struggles to remember?

2. At lunch, what do Helen and Philip tell Miranda about their neighbors in Chapter 3?

3. What does Miranda learn about the family that broke into the attic?

4. What is the village commons like?

5. What are the Hootons like?

6. Why is Iris Kramer planning to put up black cloth on the attic windows?

7. What can Miranda see from the attic windows?

8. What does Miranda's new bedroom look like, and how does she imagine it will look after they fix it up?

9. What does Miranda think of the house as she wanders the first floor?

10. What does Andrew Kramer say about the house and how his family came to own it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Idioms are words that have a figurative, rather than a literal meaning. How are idioms used in Time Windows to help characters communicate? How do idioms help create word pictures and mental images for readers in a concise manner? How do idioms help readers understand characters, emotions, and ideas?

Essay Topic 2

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in Time Windows? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and characters? How does it help readers connect with and understand characters, especially Miranda?

Essay Topic 3

Personification is a type of figurative language that assigns human characteristics to inanimate objects. How does Reiss use personification in the book? How does the use of personification assist readers in imagining scenes and objects, especially the dollhouse?

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