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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 does Dad call the family when they all wake up in the car in Chapter 11?

2. Who is Wool Pooh?

3. Who saves Kenny from the dangerous part of the lake?

4. How does Momma let Grandma know she is there in Chapter 11?

5. Why does Dad tell Kenny that Byron needs to go South for a while?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is true about the church bombing in this book?

2. How does Joey react when Mrs. Davidson brings her a present, and what does Momma say about this?

3. What does Kenny see when he gets to the church to find Joey?

4. What does Kenny think about the lecture Byron gives him after he gets out from behind the couch?

5. What does Kenny first think when Joey talks to him in his room in Chapter 14?

6. What was Kenny ashamed about after the bombing?

7. What has Dad planned for the trip despite Momma's intense research?

8. What caused what Kenny heard in the back yard, and how does he discover this?

9. What does the author ask his readers to do at the end of the book?

10. How does Momma prepare for the trip to Alabama?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the stories Byron told, and how did they affect the characters who heard them?

Essay Topic 2

What are the family dynamics of the Watson family, and how do these relationships change over the course of the plot?

Essay Topic 3

Where in this plot did violence take a place, and how did these included moments of violence change the characters in the book?

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