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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. How many fingers do the illiterate students think are on a hand?

2. Where did Pat Conroy visit Dr. Henry Piedmont?

3. Who suggested Pat Conroy change the direction of his teaching career?

4. What is Pat Conroy's philosophy at the end of Chapter 6?

5. Pat Conroy is required to get permission to leave school during recess from who?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bennington say about his personal relationship with colored people?

2. What appeals to Pat Conroy about many of the people he meets in Chapter 4?

3. Why did Ted Stone close his restaurant?

4. What is significant to Pat Conroy about the abandoned home in Chapter 4?

5. How does Pat Conroy spend his days after school?

6. How do the people on the island react to the two students from Cowell College?

7. Why does Pat Conroy express surprise upon learning that children of Yamacraw never celebrate Halloween?

8. For what purpose does Pat Conroy attempt to give the students a classical music education?

9. Why is the library in Yamacraw school ironic?

10. Why did Pat Conroy enjoy swearing as a teen?

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

Analyze Pat Conroy's relationship with one of the following examples:

1. The school administration.

2. Mrs. Brown.

3. The people of Yamacraw Island.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the island of Yamacraw.

1) What does it look like physically?

2) What is the mentality of those who live there?

3) What does it offer, and what does it lack?

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