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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. What does Byron do after Kenny starts breathing again after being saved from the lake?

3. What does Dad say when Byron complains at the first stop on the road trip?

4. Where does Grandma Sands live?

5. What is the safe place a sign points to along the lake?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the Wool Pooh?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Kenny hear after Joey goes to church in Chapter 14, and what does Dad think caused it?

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

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

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

Essay Topic 3

Which character did you relate with the most in this book? Why? How did this character change throughout the book?

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