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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 was Granny's name?

2. Why does Love say she married Grandpa?

3. What does Will notice about his grandfather's house a week after Granny's death?

4. What is destroyed by the dangerous animals on the camping trip?

5. What does Love say is the one thing she needed in the man she married?

Short Essay Questions

1. What makes the camping trip so miserable for the boys?

2. How does Mary respond when she hears that her father is getting remarried?

3. What does Grandpa say to the crowd after he returns from his wedding to Love?

4. Why does Grandpa not like going to church?

5. What did Loma do when her father wouldn't allow her to become an actress?

6. What two things did Will see Grandpa do while his grandmother was sick that he had never seen him do before?

7. What does Hoyt tell Mary when he comes home from work at the beginning of the book?

8. How does Will feel when Granny's death is written into the Family Bible?

9. Why is Will sure that Grandpa didn't care about Love before his wife died?

10. Why did the men and women in Cold Sassy like Love before her marriage to Grandpa Blakeslee?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Grandpa's relationship with Love change over the course of this book?

Essay Topic 2

What are some of the important and unique details included in Grandpa's will, and what do these items reveal about his personality?

Essay Topic 3

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the characters touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

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