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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ralph's father bring home each year from the summer job?

2. What is "the Graham?"

3. Ralph thinks that people from northern Indiana especially enjoy:

4. Why do young kids go to Pulaski's store?

5. Where did adult Ralph spend his most recent Fourth of July?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What makes the book have a community feel about it that can be related to by a great number of people, regardless of whether they grew up during the Great Depression or in the Midwest?

Essay Topic 2

Why was Adult Flick such a vital character in the book? What was his role, and why would the book have been negatively affected without his character?

Essay Topic 3

What do we learn about the Great Depression through stories told by a young child instead of those same stories told by an adult?

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