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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. What is the name of the nursing home where Avery's Grandma Judy is staying?

3. In Chapter 7, what snack does an attendant bring Grandma Judy and Avery?

4. In Chapter 2, how old does May remember she was when she was on the deck of a shantyboat?

5. What time does Avery call Trent after discovering her grandmother's typewriter in Chapter 13?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 12, what happened when a man came to visit his little boy?

3. In Chapter 8, what did Rill see and smell when they entered the white house?

4. In Chapter 10, who did Rill see come into the room where she and her siblings were sleeping, and what did he do?

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

6. In Chapter 1, who is Avery and what is background and career?

7. In Chapter 4, who came with Briny to help get Queenie to the hospital?

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

9. In Chapter 11, what was Wells' condition?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Avery is jealous when she watches people enjoying themselves on Edisto Island. What does Avery realize about choices and time when she is on Edisto Island? What conclusion does she come to about choices and time? Do choices affect the time a person has or does time affect the choices a person makes?

Essay Topic 2

Each of the remaining sisters had dragonfly bracelets. What did the bracelets mean to the sisters and remind them of? What did they symbolize to May and Grandma Judy?

Essay Topic 3

In the novel, some characters are more thoroughly described than others. Who are some characters that are merely named in passing or have a minor role in the novel? What is the importance of these flat characters to the story line? In what way do these characters make the main characters more colorful or interesting? How do they provide background information or advance the plot? When there is conflict, what type of role do these flat characters play?

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