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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 birds nest does Little Elk notice in "Broken Barriers"?

2. Who tells Clive and Helen about the incident with the lemur?

3. Where do Bonita, her parents, and siblings live?

4. In "Turtles and Hippos," for what animal is Buddy Parrish building a new enclosure?

5. In the big red barn at Glendale, how many many boxes of human skeletons from Indian graves are buried there?

Short Essay Questions

1. What parts of Glendale does Little Elk like and dislike?

2. In "A New Routine," how is Crawford's relationship with Bonita progressing?

3. In "Rebalancing," what does Two do with her vodka?

4. In "Visiting Two," what does Clive remember about being injured?

5. In "Broken Barriers," how does Two hear Little Elk?

6. What do Clive and Shackleford decide to do after Dinah, the hippo, dies?

7. What happens when Ken takes Mickey to Chambliss Hall?

8. How did Little Elk die?

9. What did Jack do while Ken took the lemur to Chambliss Hall?

10. What do Clive and Helen do after the first day of the appeal for the Scopes trial?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about situations and characters?

Essay Topic 2

Noel Cemetery was located where Glendale is in 1926. Was the cemetery desecrated or excavated when the graves were removed?

Essay Topic 3

Idioms are words that have a figurative, rather than a literal meaning. How does the author use idioms in the book? Why are the idioms sometimes difficult to understand? Why do the idioms often require research to understand their meaning?

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