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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 grade will Dan be in in the fall?

2. What is the weather like for the occupants of the dollhouse when Miranda returns in Chapter 3?

3. Where did a man go to live when his wife and child died?

4. When was Garnet established?

5. What are Miranda and her mother going to do after they get Miranda enrolled in school?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Miranda witness in Chapter 3 when she visits the dollhouse after lunch?

2. What is the village commons like?

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

4. Why does Mrs. Wainwright call Miranda a late starter?

5. Why does Miranda decline to go on bike rides and walks with her parents in Chapter 3?

6. What does Philip Browne know about the history of the house they buy?

7. What does Miranda remember about dating in New York?

8. What does Miranda find in the attic?

9. What can Miranda see from the attic windows?

10. In Chapter 2, who comes to the attic after the first person Miranda sees there disappears?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Miranda has always gotten along well with her mother. How and why does Miranda and Helen’s relationship begin to change and deteriorate the longer they are in Garnet?

Essay Topic 2

Genre is a means of classifying literature. What is the genre of the novel? Why is it not fantasy?

Essay Topic 3

Verisimilitude ensures that even a story that has magical elements is rooted in reality and plausible. How does Reiss create a believable world in Time Windows?

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