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

2. Men were nostalgic about what sometimes that bothered Sam?

3. What idea from the war is Sam trying to emulate by staying outside at night?

4. What had Sam lost the desire for one Christmas that parallel's her loss of desire for Lonnie?

5. What does Emmett call the dentist's dinner dance that Irene goes to?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Irene describe Bob?

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

3. How does Sam blame herself for what went wrong with Tom at his apartment?

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

5. Why does Sam make her mother's bed up with two fitted bottom sheets?

6. How does Sam react as they are getting closer to the Vietnam Memorial?

7. How does Sam speculate on the moment of origin?

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

9. How determined is Grandma Smith to go to Florida?

10. How does Sam perceive the Washington Monument and the flag near the Vietnam Memorial?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sam is resentful of her mother's new baby. Explain why.

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

What does the egret symbolize for Emmett? Discuss various instances in the book where Emmett looks for the egret and what it means to him.

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