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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 daredevil act do a couple of skinny blond girls perform at the County Fair?
2. How does the Old Man feel about the farming exhibits at the County Fair?
3. Which of the following are NOT found in the Bumpus' yard?
4. The night before the County Fair, the Old Man says he doesn't care if Mother checks out the quilts and raspberry jams so long as he and the narrator can do what?
5. When the narrator realizes he forgot to pack something for the Michigan trip, where does he remember leaving it?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the Shepherd family's annual summer vacation.
2. What is top spinning, and why are the boys of Warren G. Harding Elementary School so obsessed with this pastime?
3. How does the house next door to the Shepherds transform after the Bumpus family moves in?
4. How does the Old Man handle all the problems the family encounters en route to Michigan?
5. Describe the conditions inside the car during the drive to Clear Lake, Michigan.
6. How does the narrator trick Farkas into challenging him to a battle of spinning tops?
7. Who does most of the work when it's time to prepare for the narrator's annual vacation?
8. How does the narrator describe getting to the County Fair?
9. At the end of the Shepherd family's County Fair excursion, what is the Old Man's assessment?
10. What happens after the narrator uses a dummy top and lets Farkas win the first round?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Compare and contrast the narrator's love interests: Josephine, Daphne, and Wanda. Which one is best suited for him, if any? What important life lessons does he learn from his experiences with each?
Essay Topic 2
Using examples from the book, explain how the narrator benefits when he applies, or engages in, the following:
a. Self-discipline
b. Family traditions
c. Challenging the status quo
Essay Topic 3
The book's time line covers the narrator's childhood and teen years. How does the narrator change, develop, and grow from the beginning to the end of the book? In what ways do the stories evolve? In what instances does the author seem to act about the same as a teenager as he did as a child?
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