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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. In "Beyond the Black Stump," where does Gretel find herself in the dream she has after finding her mother?
2. In "Things Go Missing in the Night" when fights end, where is Sarah found?
3. In "Beyond the Black Stump," how many students attended the school Gretel attended at her last foster home?
4. In "Beyond the Black Stump," what color does Gretel say that her mother's eyes are?
5. In "Beyond the Black Stump," where did Sarah meet Charlie?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "Things Go Missing in the Night," what makes Gretel realize that her mother notices what is happening to her?
2. In "Things Go Missing in the Night," how is the house different when Sarah is there?
3. In "Beyond the Stump," where did Gretel and Sarah live after the boat and before the stable?
4. In "Things Go Missing in the Night," what did Gretel dream of instead of Italy, Peru, or New Zealand?
5. In "Beyond the Stump," what does Gretel say that she would have done if she really cared about her mother?
6. In "Things Go Missing in the Night," how did Laura and Roger find Margot?
7. In "Things Go Missing in the Night," what did the narrator say went missing in the night as Margot got to wilder land?
8. In "Beyond the Stump," how did Gretel live after her mother left her?
9. In "Beyond the Stump," what did Gretel and her mother do during their last evening together?
10. In "Beyond the Stump," what does Gretel say about the corpse and why it is not her mother?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Mood is used to evoke feelings in readers through the use of descriptive language. What is the overall mood of the novel? Does the mood change in different sections?
Essay Topic 2
Johnson skips through time in relating events in Everything Under. How does Johnson use shifts in time as a narrative technique? Is there a clear division between past and present? How do the shifts in time affect how readers understand the story and characters?
Essay Topic 3
Margot learns about something called the canal thief from fishermen she meets. What or who is the canal thief? What does the canal thief symbolize?
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