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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 enlivens Mrs. Eltwing?

2. What does Jonathan tell his wife?

3. With what is Julie's house filled?

4. Why might Aunt Cordelia be looking forward to seeing Jonathan?

5. How does Cordelia's father squelch rumors about Jonathan and Cordelia when she is tutoring him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Aunt Cordelia make her money and what else does she do?

2. How is Julie and Aggie's relationship the rest of the school year and what happens in the summer that bothers Julie?

3. Why does Julie feel vulnerable when she gets up after her mother's funeral?

4. What does Aunt Cordelia try to do for the Kilpin family and how does she feel when she returns home?

5. Why does Julie envy Laura but what does Laura feel that Julie cannot understand?

6. What does Julie do when she hears the children say she will be going away and why?

7. What is announced a few weeks after the children discover Uncle Haskell's secret?

8. Where does Julie go and what does she do after she is chastised by Aunt Cordelia over hitting Danny?

9. What is a drastic change in Julie's life when she is ten? How is she involved in it?

10. What happens when Julie visits Laura and Bill and what does Bill tell her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Julie experiences not only Chris' departure for boarding school but also Laura's marriage to Bill.

1. What effect do you think these types of events would have on a young girl? Use examples from the book and your experience to support your answer.

2. What do you think a person can do to adjust to changes in their life? Use examples from the book and your experience to support your answer.

3. Do you think it was fair to Julie for the family to send Chris off to school? Why or why not? Use examples from the book and your experience to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Before the end of the summer, Julie and Chris stumble onto Uncle Haskell's activities involving his golf bag. Following Uncle Haskell into the woods one night, Julie and Chris watch Uncle Haskell retrieve a spade from his bag. Thinking that Uncle Haskell is probably burying all sorts of dead creatures in the woods, Julie and Chris unearth some of the little graves the next day only to discover empty whiskey bottles.

1. Why do you think Uncle Haskell buries his empty whiskey bottles? Use examples from the book and your experience to support your answer.

2. After researching intervention with alcoholics explain why you think the family should or shouldn't do one on Uncle Haskell.

3. Do you think it was wrong of Chris and Julie to follow their Uncle Haskell? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Carlotta thinks that Julie's decision to live at Aunt Cordelia's house during her high school years is a sign of madness, because no boy will want to drive out to the country to pick up Julie for dates. If the distance from town were not enough of a deterrent, surely no boy would want to encounter Aunt Cordelia if he did not have to.

1. Do you that Carlotta is correct? Why or why not?

2. Do you think Julie should make a decision as to where to live based on whether she will find boys to date? Why or why not?

3. Explain what you would do in Julie's situation.

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