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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. Why does Dr. Rohmer say he won't pay for the gas and the bus drivers at the end of chapter 10?
2. What is the first reason Mrs. Olinski begins to listen to what Margy and Izzy are saying while drinking tea?
3. How does chapter 12 begin?
4. What does the narrator say the audience's smiles are when the commissioner makes the adjustment in chapter 9?
5. What is the first thing Mrs. Olinski says to Mr. Singh on the way home?
Short Essay Questions
1. What difficulty does the commissioner of education have with the match-point question, and what does he do to help prevent any problems?
2. Explain Julian's answer to the question about acronyms that have entered the language as words.
3. Describe how Mrs. Olinski feels about Julian in the first part of chapter 5.
4. Why is Dr. Rohmer so worried about the district championship?
5. In chapter 5, the reader finds out how Mrs. Olinski chose each of the members of her Academic Bowl team. Explain how she did it.
6. Describe the brief conversation that Mr. Singh and Mrs. Olinski have just before The Souls begin to practice in chapter 8.
7. What does Mr. Fairbain do during the district championship, and why does this make Dr. Rohmer so uncomfortable?
8. How does Mrs. Olinski outsmart Ham Knapp in chapter 6?
9. Describe the mood at Sillington House when Mrs. Olinski comes to visit in chapter 12 and why the mood is the way it is.
10. Explain the exchange that happens between the commissioner and Julian about the disagreement about the word "tip," why it is important and how the other Souls feel about it.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Choose one of the main characters from "The View from Saturday" and explain how that character has been on a journey, and what that character found on their journey.
Essay Topic 3
Explain how The Souls become friends and describe what their friendship is like. Then choose one of the characters from the group and explain what the friendship means to that member in particular.
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