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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. How old is Avery in Chapter 1?

2. In Chapter 13, how many cottages is Trent away from Avery?

3. In the Prelude, what is the name of the woman who has a still birth?

4. In Chapter 10, what does Rill wish she could hear her father play?

5. What color was the house that Rill and the other children were taken to in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 1, when Avery is at a nursing home with her father, what encounter does she have with a woman named May Crandall?

2. In Chapter 13, what does Trent tell Avery that his grandfather might have been doing for her grandmother?

3. In the Prelude, what did a doctor recommend to Christine's father?

4. At the end of Chapter 12, who was interested in Fern?

5. At the end of Chapter 10, what did Rill do when a big red-headed boy told her to come with him?

6. In Chapter 2, what did the midwife tell Rill to tell her father?

7. In Chapter 9, why has Honeybee asked the Monday Girls to not visit Grandma Judy?

8. In Chapter 5, what photo does Avery see in May Crandall's room, and why does the photograph interest her?

9. What happens when Avery tries to intimidate Trent into giving her the envelope at the end of Chapter 11?

10. In Chapter 10, where were Rill and her siblings sleeping and what was it like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Avery has a close relationship with her parents, especially her father. How would you describe the relationship Avery has with her parents? How is her relationship different with father than it is with her mother? What does Avery’s decision to come home reveal about her parents and the type of relationship that they have?

Essay Topic 2

Hootsie and May did not get along when May first moved to the Seviers’ home. How would you describe the relationship between the two when May first moved to the Seviers’ home? How did their relationship change after May and Fern returned? How did their relationship change by the end of the novel, and why was there such a change?

Essay Topic 3

After being kidnapped, Rill often felt powerless and hopeless. Why did Rill feel powerless after the kidnapping? How did that sense of powerlessness drive feelings of hopelessness?

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