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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 does Fone find while looking for Ted?

2. What does THorn do when Fone begins to tell her about Moby Dick?

3. What does Phoney say to Ted when they meet?

4. What does Ted warn Phoney about?

5. What does Smiley find in Chapter one?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Fone enters the valley in chapter one?

2. Describe the scene in chapter three where Thorn and Fone go through Fone's knapsack.

3. Describe the scene in chapter three when Thorn wakes Fone up.

4. What happens after Fone gets out of the water in chapter two after having been chased by the rat creatures?

5. Describe the scene in chapter three when Gran'ma Ben arrives home.

6. Describe how the chase scene begins in chapter two between Fone and the rat creatures.

7. Describe the conversation that Fone and the Great Red Dragon have in chapter two.

8. What is Phoney doing when he is first shown in chapter three?

9. Explain what happens when Fone first takes the children home in chapter two.

10. What happens when Phoney meets Gran'ma Ben?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

1) Speculate on the significance of the map that Smiley found in Chapter one.

2) What do think could be the possible reasons that Thorn feels that the map is familiar in some way?

3) If the map could represent something more in the story what would it be?

Essay Topic 2

1) Why does Fone continually help Phoney even though he knows that Phoney will most likely get him into trouble?

2) How does Smiley's reasons for helping Phoney compare to Fone's reasons?

3) What does it indicate that Smiley was worried about Fone because Fone is small?

Essay Topic 3

1) Explain the relationship that Thorn and Fone have. What is the significance of this relationship?

2) Is there any indication that Thorn might feel as strongly about Fone as he feels about her?

3) How do you believe their relationship will end?

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