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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 is Jamie's impulse to feel when he first skates on the pond?

2. What is Patty's opinion of Mrs. Desrochers?

3. What does Patty tell Earl she thought they might have to live in forever?

4. What does Jamie do to his mother when she gets him safely back to the trailer?

5. What does Patty stop asking Jamie after Wednesday?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jamie remember about the waiter?

2. How do Jamie and Patty spend the week?

3. Describe the argument between Patty and Jamie in this section?

4. What does Jamie think of Van when he sees him again in the final chapter?

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

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

7. Summarize Chapter 9.

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

9. How does Jamie react when his mother disappears down the road?

10. What problems does Patty have at the beginning of Chapter 9?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the main themes of the story. In what way are these themes relevant to the period? How does the author use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 2

Aside from the main character, examine the way the author uses the other characters in the book. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

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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