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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. From where does Lonnie call on the night of the dance?

2. What do skin disease do grown-ups get that is a version of an adolescent skin disease?

3. What does Dawn want to buy at the drugstore?

4. Hopewell doesn't have a mall, but it has a shopping center between Penney's and this place where Sam meets dawn.

5. What is Dawn doing to Sam at the beginning of Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the section of town where Tom has his garage.

2. Why does Emmett warn Sam and Lonnie not to let Moon Pie outside when the leave for Caewood's Pond?

3. How does Sam feel about Dawn's news of being pregnant?

4. What is the reason Sam thinks Jim's wife let him?

5. What reasons does Sam have for trying to persuade Emmett to get a job?

6. Why is Sam afraid to ask Emmett why he flew the Vietcong flag from the courthouse?

7. How does Sam see the waitress at Howard Johnson's where she, Mawmaw, and Emmett eat on their trip?

8. What does Sam feel when she hears the new Beatles song on the radio?

9. How does Sam feel about Bruce Springsteen?

10. Why doesn't Emmett take the job he is offered at the cookie factory?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare Lexington and Hopewell. What are Irene's feelings about both places in relation to Sam?

Essay Topic 2

To Sam, Dawn represents the status quo in Hopewell. How? What does Sam tell her to to do to avoid being part of the norm there?

Essay Topic 3

Sam feels she knows nothing about herself, her name, and her father. How are these feelings manifested and how do they drive her to find out more about her history?

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