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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. Who picks up their items as Ellie and her group returns to the street where the kids dropped them?
2. Why does Ellie say they left the radio at Grandma's house in the opening pages of chapter sixteen?
3. What is the argument over the night after the group catches trout?
4. How long does it take the soldiers to get the jeep started again after they get it out of the river?
5. Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons the group thinks they should contact the colonel?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe how the group spends the night after the airport explosions.
2. What is the system the group has developed for cooking lamb?
3. What does Ellie want to do when they finish butchering the lamb, what does Fi say about it, and what is Ellie's comment about change on this topic?
4. Describe how Ellie and the others come to have a hot meal their first night at her Grandma's house?
5. What does Ellie say about the damage from the war and what does it make her realize about herself?
6. What scares Ellie when she's trying to find the sound of the crying and what does she say about it?
7. Describe what happens in the moments after Ellie and the others get out of the river.
8. Why does Ellie want to make radio contact with Colonel Finley and what is her reaction after the call?
9. Describe what happens to Ellie in the hours after she and Lee arrive home.
10. What does Ellie say has changed about how she and Fi act as compared to how they were before the war?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What do you consider the main theme of the story? List three examples of that theme and explain why the theme is important to the story.
Essay Topic 2
Fully describe how the group came to be at the airfield, why they decided to cause as much damage as they could, and how they escaped.
Essay Topic 3
Give an overview of the setting of this story and the events that have occurred to put Ellie and the others in their current situation. Is the setting real? Are the events real? Could there be some other setting or some other series of events that would lead to this same story?
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