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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 Jamie do in the bathroom?

2. What does Jamie try to talk to his mother about?

3. Why does Patty send Jamie outside of the trailer?

4. How does Jamie feel when Patty disappears in her car to give Mrs. Desroches back her bag?

5. Where does Van say he will wait for Patty?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what is it a good thing that Patty and Jamie confronted each other in chapter six?

2. How does the novel end?

3. How does Earl help Patty in Chapter 9?

4. How does Patty calm Jamie down?

5. How does Patty react to Jamie breaking the car handle?

6. How does Mrs. Desrochers respond to Patty's defensiveness?

7. How does Patty answer Jamie's question at the end of this section?

8. Summarize Chapter 9.

9. How does Jamie's success at the carnival effect his mood?

10. What does Jamie feel about ice skating?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does Jamie seems to prefer to live in the trailer than to live in Earl's house? Why is Patty so insistent about living in the trailer? Does Earl give in too easily to her demands? What does Earl mean when he says they will be sitting ducks?

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

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

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