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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 Earl's trailer remind Jamie of?

2. What does Jamie say everything felt like when Mrs. Gimber was his teacher?

3. What does Earl do in the afternoon?

4. What does Earl say Patty and her children will be if they stay in the trailer?

5. Why does Jamie think the bureau drawer is the perfect crib for Nin?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Jamie happy that Nin will be sleeping in the bureau drawer?

2. What does Jamie recall about Van and Chapter 3?

3. How does Patty reassure Jamie?

4. What does Jamie fantasize about Earl?

5. How does Patty scare Jamie in this section?

6. What is Jamie thinking as he waits for his mother in the car?

7. Who is Agnes and what is her role in the story?

8. What are the alternatives to staying in the trailer?

9. How does Patty react to what Van does?

10. How does Earl react to seeing Patty and her children at his house?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What will happen to the characters in the future? What happens in the book that suggests the characters lives will map out like this?

Essay Topic 2

How much does Jamie understand of the situation that he, Nin and Patty find themselves in? How does Jamie manage to cope with the situation?

Essay Topic 3

Compare Jamie's character to the person he was at the beginning of the book to the he is at the end.

1. What did Jamie hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2. What events changes Jamie's ideas about life?

3. How has Jamie's character changed by the end of the book?

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