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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. According to Grandma Smith, what do young folks not appreciate?

2. What greets Sam when she gets back to her house?

3. What makes Irene's hair look like Mrs. Biggs' forsythia bush?

4. Mawmaw wants to do what to Dwayne's name on the memorial?

5. Where does Sam let Emmett out so she can drive around the parking lot while he shops?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sam hope Tom will do the day after their encounter at his apartment?

2. How does Sam speculate on how women would run the world if they had the power men had?

3. Why didn't Sam give her mother the ceramic cat she decorated when Irene gave her $600 to buy the car?

4. Why did Emmett get soured on the war and who did he get involved with afterward?

5. How does Emmett react to Sam's admonishment of her father's feelings toward the war that he expressed in his journal?

6. When Tom asks if Sam wants eggs, what does she assume will happen?

7. Why does Sam have the feeling that everyone around her is shooting off in all directions?

8. How does Irene describe Bob?

9. According to Sam, what do girls, boys, women, and talk about and how are men different?

10. How does Sam feel about her current status as a runaway?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Sam react when she finally gets to the Vietnam Memorial? How does finding aversion her own name on the memorial affect her? How do Mawmaw and Emmett react?

Essay Topic 2

What happens to Sam's impression of her father when she finds his journal?

Essay Topic 3

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

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