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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. Pat Conroy is required to get permission to leave school during recess from who?
2. What ends Pat Conroy's desire to swim at Yamacraw?
3. Cindy Lou protests what about Halloween?
4. The students thought the word Conroy was what?
5. Where does Pat Conroy sleep his first night in Yamacraw?
Short Essay Questions
1. What things go wrong on the Halloween trip to South Carolina?
2. What social action did Pat Conroy take after Martin Luther King was shot?
3. What appeals to Pat Conroy about many of the people he meets in Chapter 4?
4. Explain why the Yamacraw oyster trade fell apart.
5. How do the people on the island react to the two students from Cowell College?
6. Why is Pat Conroy concerned about the treatment of animals on the island?
7. What revelation helps Pat Conroy realize the Stones are frighteningly racist?
8. For what purpose does Pat Conroy attempt to give the students a classical music education?
9. How does Ted Stone feel about killing men while at war?
10. According to Piedmont, how has Jesus changed him?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Analyze the relationships between whites and blacks during the time period of "The Water is Wide."
1) What time period is it and what is happening politically in the United States?
2) How do whites feel about blacks?
3) How do blacks feel about whites?
Essay Topic 2
Examine the prejudice the children on Yamacraw Island will have to face beyond just the color of their skin.
Essay Topic 3
Analyze Pat Conroy's relationship with one of the following examples:
1. The school administration.
2. Mrs. Brown.
3. The people of Yamacraw Island.
This section contains 613 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |
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