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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 name did Sal suggest for her sister?

2. How old did the man at the State Fair guess that Phoebe's father was?

3. At what hotel do Sal and her grandparents stay outside of Chicago?

4. What do Phoebe and Sal have for dinner at the Finney's house?

5. To what town do they detour just before reaching the South Dakota border?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who rings Phoebe's doorbell, and what does he want?

2. Why does Sal feel guilty about her mother's miscarriage?

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

4. How does Megan catch Phoebe in her lie about where her mother is?

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

6. How does Phoebe react to the Finney house, and why does she react that way?

7. Why was the fact that Sugar cut her long hair important?

8. How does Sal's father respond to the news that Mrs. Winterbottom has left, and why is this important?

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

10. How does Sal try to warn her father about Margaret?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Sal's grandparents on each side of her family: their personalities, relationships, and roles in the story.

Essay Topic 2

Explain why you think Native American heritage was so important to Sal and her mother.

Essay Topic 3

Why is Sal angry at her mother for leaving? What does being angry accomplish for Sal?

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