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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 does Frannie sit down across from?

2. What kind of shoes is the new boy wearing?

3. What does Frannie note about the front of her turtleneck sweater?

4. What does Mrs. Johnson say the new boy's name is?

5. What does Sean say he'd do after he crossed the bridge he's imagined?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Frannie say about Sean's ability to dance and how she sometimes wished she could live in silence.

2. What is Frannie's reaction to the news that her mother is expecting another baby?

3. What's Frannie's reaction to Trevor's injury?

4. What does Frannie say about how quickly she's growing up?

5. What do Sean, Frannie and Mama do on Saturday morning?

6. What does the new boy say when Frannie asks what it was like to live on the other side of the highway.

7. What does the new boy reveal about himself, where his family had been prior to his arrival at Price, and why he'd moved to Price?

8. What do Frannie and Samantha say about the fact that the new boy is white and Samantha's idea that he might be Jesus?

9. What does Frannie remember about the baby that didn't "thrive", and what is another memory of someone using that word?

10. What does Frannie say some people might see if they looked into her neighborhood and what does she think about her neighborhood?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Frannie says that Sean taught her to speak and that she grew up "in his world of words." How might Frannie's life have been different without Sean's influence? Would her life have been better? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Describe how Frannie's relationship with the new boy changes over the course of the book. Why does it change? Samantha's thoughts about the new boy also change over the course of the book. Are the changes similar? Are they prompted by the same thing?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the poem that Frannie likes about hope and feathers. What is Trevor's interpretation of the poem? What is Frannie's mom's interpretation? What is Frannie's interpretation? Which do you believe to be correct? Why?

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