For One More Day Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 141 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

For One More Day Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 141 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. Why did Chick and his sister have trouble accepting that their parents were going to get divorced?

2. Why did Len Benetto often spend long chunks of time away from his family?

3. What does the narrator claim to have spent part of her career doing?

4. What does Chick find in the refrigerator of his mother's long empty house?

5. Why does Chick sneak out of work in Section 1?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Chick return to his family home? What does he find there?

2. Why did Chick have a problem with how his mother would leave him at school?

3. To whose wedding is Chick Benetto not invited?

4. Why is the word please carved into the side of tree?

5. What one thing does Chick recall always made his parents happy?

6. What word did Chick's mother help Chick find the definition for despite his father's disapproval of her help?

7. Why did Chick's parents feel the need to get married quickly?

8. What after school activity did Chick pick even after his father left?

9. What causes Chick's mother to stop playing her favorite record?

10. Who does Chick see when he jumps from the water tower?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the writer's style. Discuss in detail the writer's choice to structure his book in the way he has, the use of the newspaper clips and lists, his choice of words, his use of dialogue, and his choice of chapter names. Discuss how each of these choices affects the reader's overall impression of the novel and the themes within the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Posey. What is Posey's real name? What is her profession? How does Chick feel when he learns that his mother cleaned houses to help pay for his college tuition? Why is Chick surprised by this? What does this choice say about Posey and her love for her children? What does this choice say about Posey's life after her divorce? Why did Posey stop working as a nurse? What does that say about Posey's morals? About the morals of others? Why did Posey never remarry?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss one of the following themes in detail, citing examples from the novel:

1) Death

2) Suicide

3) Father-Son Relationships

4) Mother-Son Relationships

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