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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 the one rule that Red states the entire natural world holds in common?
2. Bongo loves to listen to a band down the street practice what kind of music?
3. What color cloth does Samar use when she first ties a wish to Red's branch?
4. How many hollows in total does Red have?
5. What does the narrator say about the level of difficulty involved when talking to trees?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Red's several hollows, explaining their origins and their benefits.
2. What negative effects does it have upon a tree to carve into it, according to Red?
3. What activities does Red wonder about experiencing and why?
4. Discuss one major conflict present within your reading of the novel Wishtree so far.
5. Discuss an instance when Applegate uses a simile to send a message about time.
6. For what reason does Applegate spend so much time discussing the naming of the species?
7. At what three sights does Samar often gaze as she sits beneath Red's boughs?
8. Discuss the significance of Wishtree's dedication and epigraph.
9. How is the theme of tranquility included within Red's introduction of Samar to the reader?
10. Which character moves forward most of the action in the novel Wishtree and how?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Sensory details are used frequently by Applegate in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression throughout the narrative of Wishtree. Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Applegate’s creation of vivid characters to populate the narrative.
Essay Topic 2
Analyze Wishtree from an Existential perspective. What elements of life does it suggest hold the most meaning and why?
Essay Topic 3
Determine Applegate’s message within the novel Wishtree regarding the idea of personal responsibility.
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