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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 season does Mrs. Olinski feel she should prefer?

2. What does Nadia think of Margy?

3. What does Noah say Grandma Sadie and Grandpa Nate did in their "former lives"?

4. What is the name of the monkey that accompanies Julian and his family aboard the ship?

5. How many of the wedding invitations that Tillie and Noah made are "specially marked"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the relationship between Mrs. Olinski and Mrs. Draper.

2. What does Julian decide to do when he finds out that Arnold will be acting during the performance instead of Ginger, and how does he get even with Ham in the end?

3. What does Noah tell the reader about Allen Diamondstein?

4. What happens that reminds Mrs. Olinski of how she chose the fourth member of her Academic Bowl team, and what can the reader now infer from her statements about this choice?

5. What is Nadia's relationship with her old friends like in "Nadia Tells of Turtle Love"? How does Nadia explain this relationship?

6. What do we know about Nadia from chapter 2?

7. What angers Nadia in her conversation with Ethan, and why?

8. What does Mrs. Olinski say about how she chose the members of her Academic Bowl team?

9. What does the reader find out about Mrs. Olinski at the end of her discussion with Dr. Rohmer, and how does the author continue the mystery about this fact?

10. Describe how the wedding cake is ruined and how it is saved again.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe what Mrs. Olinski decides to do in order to get to know Ethan better, and explain why this is important to Ethan and how it relates to Ethan's character.

Essay Topic 2

Explain how the topic of courtesy repeats itself throughout the novel and how the idea of courtesy helps the reader to see each of the characters.

Essay Topic 3

Explain the question Mrs. Olinski asks The Souls at the end of the book and how it relates to the topics of friendship and journeys.

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