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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 much are bus tickets to Bridgeport?

2. What do Edie and Louis bring James to eat in Chapter 5?

3. When Dicey falls asleep while James is telling the story of Hansel and Gretel, what time does she awake?

4. In Chapter 5, through what types of trees does Dicey look through at the sky when she wakes?

5. What route do the children take in Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where does Stewart take the children before the takes them to their aunt's house?

2. Who is living at the children's aunt's house, and what does she tell them?

3. What do the Tillerman children look like?

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

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

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

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

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

9. In Chapter 5, where does Sammy get food, and why does Dicey get upset?

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

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

Metaphors and similes are figures of speech that are used to make comparisons between things. Metaphors seem to imply an equal comparison, while similes seem to imply a similarity between two things. Does Voigt use more metaphors or similes in Homecoming? How does the use of metaphors or similes help readers comprehend concepts? How does the use of metaphors or similes help make the writing more interesting?

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