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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 did Sean dream of in the hospital that made him cough?

2. What color is a bird Orvil can sometimes see during his sessions with his therapist?

3. What belief system did Sean Price's mother follow?

4. In Chapter 18, where did Opal have a pain settle by the time she got in to see a doctor about the pain she had migrating around her body?

5. What game do Sean and Orvil learn they both used to play?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lony think his cutting is different from the cutting kids at school do?

2. How does Opal think Orvil needs to respond to the shooting, and how does she try to help him?

3. Why does Orvil tell Lony not to cut his hair?

4. How does Orvil start taking more pills than he is told to take?

5. In Chapter 21, why do Loother and Lony have to go to an AA meeting with Jacquie?

6. What did Orvil and Sean used to do together in elementary school?

7. How is Sean injured?

8. How does Jacquie take photos and use them?

9. What game do the Red Feather boys make up when they and Opal live in a house up Fruitvale Avenue?

10. Who recognizes Opal when she starts going to the Friendship Center, and what does the woman have for Opal?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Setting is the place where a story happens. Where does Wandering Stars take place? How do characters feel about the various settings and why?

Essay Topic 2

Mood is an element that authors use to evoke feelings in readers through the use of descriptive language. Mood is the overall feeling that readers have when reading a story. What is the overall mood of Wandering Stars?

Essay Topic 3

Charlie and Opal grow up together. After they leave Carlisle, they become lovers and have a daughter together. How would you describe the relationship Charlie and Opal have and how it affects their lives?

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