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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 cleaning product is smelled when Toby and friends enter the sideshow trailer?

2. How does Zachary explain the lack of minister notes in his Bible?

3. Where does Cal live?

4. Who breaks the trailer window?

5. What do Toby and Cal take to their lookout spot in the beginning of Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Toby and Cal try to determine whether Zachary really is the fattest boy in the world?

2. What help does Zachary ask from Toby and Cal when the sheriff takes them to visit?

3. What questions does Cal ask Zachary the first time he meets him?

4. Why does Toby take Scarlett's sister to see the sideshow?

5. What is ironic about Cal and Toby chasing taunting fourth graders away from Zachary's trailer?

6. As Toby and Scarlett swing on her front porch, what does Scarlett talk about?

7. Why does Toby believe that Cal is good with kids?

8. Other than the emotional attachment Toby has with his mother, why does he miss her so much?

9. What are Antler's major downtown businesses?

10. In the letter from Wayne that Cal reads to Toby on top of the bowling alley, what does Wayne write about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the significance of Kate to the story? How might the novel had differed if she had not been introduced as a minor character?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the importance of the Grand Ole Opry and the Vietnam War to the theme of When Zachary Beaver Came to Town.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the importance of water throughout the novel.

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