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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 is on Sal's desk at school shortly after school begins?

2. How is the Finney household best described?

3. What does Phoebe lecture the Finneys about?

4. Where does Phoebe say her mother went to while in England?

5. The girls overhear Mrs. Winterbottom ask what question of Prudence?

Short Essay Questions

1. What evidence does Phoebe present to Sergeant Bickle as proof that her mother was kidnapped?

2. Why does Sal flinch every time someone touches her?

3. How is Phoebe's journal decorated, and why is this important?

4. What do you think Mrs. Winterbottom means when she asks whether her daughters think she leads a tiny life?

5. Why did Sal's mother say that she felt rotten in comparison to Sal's father?

6. Why is it significant that Ben and Sal draw the same thing in class?

7. At the beginning of the story, where is Sal's mother and why?

8. Why does Sal's father allow Sal to go on the car trip with her grandparents?

9. On the second day of the weekend sleepover, what does Ben perceive about Phoebe?

10. What does Sal realize after she says that she wanted to tell Phoebe that Mrs. Winterbottom's leaving was not Phoebe's fault?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do you think is the main message the author is trying to convey in Walk Two Moons. Use many examples from the text to support your argument.

Essay Topic 2

Describe the settings in which the novel primarily takes place. How do each of these settings affect the story?

Essay Topic 3

How does the story of Pandora relate to Sal and Phoebe? How do they seek and gain hope throughout the story?

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