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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 Petey surprised that she does not find in Finn's room in "The Whole Picture"?
2. Who or what helps to deliver Roza, Rus, and Finn from one world to the next in "Slaughter"?
3. What feeling does Roza enjoy seeing in her kidnapper in "Slaughter"?
4. Why does Roza tell her kidnapper about her nightmares in "No One Is Fine"?
5. What kinds of gaps does Charlie tell Finn that Bone Gap has in "The Ballad of Charlie Valentine"?
Short Essay Questions
1. In the chapter entitled "Punched," why might Finn not have told Sean about his facial blindness condition?
2. In the chapter entitled "Blindside," how does Finn react to finding out he is probably face blind?
3. In the chapter entitled "The Fields," what events and elements seem as if they might be fantasy and not real (which is characteristic of magical realism, the genre of this novel)?
4. In the chapter entitled "Sidetracked," how did Finn get hurt?
5. In the chapter entitled "No One Is Fine," why had her botany professor offered her a ride?
6. In the chapter entitled "Sidetracked," what are some general character traits that the people of Bone Gap, Illinois, seem to have as a whole?
7. In the chapter entitled "Sunrise," for what reason does Petey think that Finn and Sean's yard has been littered and vandalized with toilet paper?
8. In the chapter entitled "Blindside," why is Petey so upset?
9. In the chapter entitled "The Lamb," how does Roza end up in the O'Sullivan's barn?
10. In the chapter entitled "Slaughter," what does the icy-eyed man tell Finn after he finds Roza?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How did Sean seem to be affected by his father's death and his mother leaving? How did these events seem to affect Finn?
Essay Topic 2
For most of the novel, what are some of the things that Finn believes about himself? Are any of these things true? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
What is the significance of the corn in the novel?
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