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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 street did the church bombing in Birmingham take place?

2. Where does Byron sleep on the night before the road trip?

3. What do Byron and Kenny trade off doing while Joey sleeps?

4. How many states do the Watsons drive through before their second break?

5. What are the kids upset about at the first stop on their road trip?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Byron do after Kenny is saved and is breathing again in Chapter 13?

2. Why does Kenny want to go to Collier's Landing, and how do his siblings react to this?

3. Who is the Wool Pooh?

4. What does Momma say she dissapproves of her mother for, and what is Grandma's response?

5. What saps the energy out of Kenny in Alabama?

6. What bothers the Watson kids so much at their first stop along the road trip?

7. Where does Grandma warn the children not to go, and why?

8. Why does Kenny feel he won a small victory during the car ride in Chapter 9?

9. Why does Dad tell Kenny that Byron needs to go to Alabama for a time?

10. What surprises Kenny about Birmingham when they finally get there?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Joetta has a pure and compassionate heart. How does she show this compassion, and in what ways does this compassion of hers change the course of the plot?

Essay Topic 2

Kenny has a somewhat negative view of his intellect. Where does this view come from, and how has this affected his personality and his place in the school?

Essay Topic 3

What happened when Byron threw a cookie at the bird? How did this event change Byron, and how did this change affect the other characters in the book?

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