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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 Dicey's reaction to Mr. Chappelle's comments as she leaves the room?
2. What is Sammy's reaction when Jeff offers Dicey and Sammy a ride home in his car?
3. What does Mina confide to Dicey are her problems?
4. What is Millie's description when Dicey asks what Gram was like when young?
5. How does the home ec teacher explain the importance of the course?
Short Essay Questions
1. When Dicey reflects on all that has happened in two days with the quick departure to Boston and all the activity once there, what does dicey realize about herself?
2. When the humiliation in the classroom ends, Dicey wordlessly takes her essay from the teacher and leaves the room without expressing her thoughts. What are Dicey's thoughts at that point?
3. What does Gram tell Dicey about life when she hears about how Mina defended Dicey in front of the teacher and the class.
4. What does Dicey discover as a result of the last minute shopping duties suggested by Gram?
5. Chapter 7 What is Gram's perspective on the essay, a point of view Dicey had not considered?
6. What does Dicey tell Jeff in response to his invitation to the dance?
7. What happens as Mina and Dicey walk together toward the farm after Dicey's work at the market?
8. What does Dicey learn from Mina about Gram that a new person to town most likely would not know for awhile?
9. What family perspective concerning Momma occurs to Dicey as she does the Christmas shopping focused on each family member?
10. What is it about the wood carved chicken that ultimately has a big impact on Dicey?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The author presents four kids from the same Tillerman lineage, yet two opposite personality types. Cite several instances that contrast the more reserved acceptance seeking personalities of James and Maybeth versus the combative assertive personalities of Dicey and Sammy.
Essay Topic 2
Setting and circumstances of Gram are central to the development of the kids progress as they settle in at the farm. Gram's isolation at the farm and minimalist life style are two factors. Provide a typical day to day description of Gram's week at the farm at a point several months before the kids appear on the scene.
Essay Topic 3
Gram characterizes Dicey's essay as an attempt to impress and open up to her classmates to give an opportunity to know something about her. She cares about school and classmates and people knowing something about her and her family. Contrast this attempt with the reasoning by Mina that Dicey does not care enough to cheat.
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