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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 people are at the beach when the children go to find food in Chapter 5?

2. In Chapter 4, how long does James try to fish before he complains that there are no fish?

3. How old was Dicey's mother when she ran off with a merchant mariner?

4. In Part 1, Chapter 1, where does Dicey take her siblings after she goes for a walk to think?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sergeant Gordo have Dicey come to the police station, and what news does he have for her?

2. In Chapter 4, how does James get hurt?

3. Why does Eunice wake Dicey early in Chapter 10?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Where do the children shelter for their fourth night on the road, and what do they have to eat?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Windy and Stewart are college students who help the children. Does James betray their kindness?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Dicey’s mother leaves her in charge of her three younger siblings. What decisions does Dicey have to make when she is left in charge of her siblings? How do her decisions affect the four of them?

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