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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. In Chapter 23, what does Kya have for supper?

2. In Chapter 41, who had fixed up the old reading cabin?

3. In Chapter 31, what is the advance payment for Kya's book?

4. In Chapter 29, when is Chase's birthday?

5. In Chapter 34, how long do the sheriff and his deputy spend searching Kya's place?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 39, what happens when Chase comes looking for Kya?

2. In Chapter 37, how does Kya get the lawyer who represents her at the trial?

3. In Chapter 23, what does Kya think when she meets Chase for a picnic?

4. What does Kya think when Chase tries to be intimate with her in Chapter 23?

5. In Chapter 32, who is willing to give Kya an alibi and why?

6. In Chapter 25, what does Patti Love say was missing from her son's effects, and where does she say the item came from?

7. In Chapter 46, what feelings does Kya have about meeting her editor, Robert Foster?

8. In Chapter 49, how does the defense attorney try to say that Kya might have killed Chase, when she was supposed to have been in Greenville at the time?

9. In Chapter 36, how does the sheriff find a motive for Kya to have killed Chase?

10. In Chapter 47, what possible explanation does Kya's lawyer give for there being no footprints around Chase's body?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Tate teaches Kya to read. What freedom does reading give Kya? In what ways does reading transform her life and enable her to survive?

Essay Topic 2

Kya is pleased when Jodie returns. How had Kya been haunted by being deserted by family members? How does Jodie’s visit bring healing to Kya? How can family connections bring healing?

Essay Topic 3

Kya is left to survive on her own when she is ten. How has Kya been taking care of herself since her mother left? How does her father’s abandonment cause challenges for Kya’s survival? What is learned about self-sufficiency through the ways that Kya finds to take care of herself when she is left alone?

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