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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. How many police cars do the children see in Chapter 6?

2. In Chapter 8, how long do the children go to the beach with Stewart before going to their aunt's house?

3. What color is everything that Eunice wears in Chapter 10?

4. What month is it when Dicey and her siblings are left in the car by their mother?

5. What day of the week do the children get to their aunt's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Liza Tillerman look like when she walks away from her children in the car?

2. Why do the children hurry away in Chapter 6?

3. Why is Stewart missing $20 in Chapter 8?

4. In Chapter 6, how do the children make some money?

5. Who finds Dicey in Chapter 7, and what does he do?

6. Who stays with James while Dicey and Maybeth go fishing in Chapter 5?

7. What do the Tillerman children look like?

8. What does Father Joseph tell Dicey about her mother's family?

9. What does Father James bring for the children, and what do they still need?

10. What happens when Dicey goes to call the bus stations and find out prices of tickets?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Dicey has to be in charge of her siblings? How does her being in charge affect the relationships she has with her siblings?

Essay Topic 2

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and character? How does it help readers connect with and understand characters?

Essay Topic 3

Dicey has some epiphanies or realizations that change her perspective. What epiphanies does Dicey have? How do they give her a different perspective on the world and her place in it?

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