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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 does Mother find when she returns home from work with Katie and Sammy?

2. How much money does Katie's father give them every day to buy treats with?

3. What volume of the Encyclopedia Brittanica does Lynn own?

4. Where does Katsu practice his chess moves?

5. What does Lynn once try to read?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the woman at the hotel say when Father tries to rent a room?

2. What does Lynn dream about while she is sick?

3. What is the job of the man that Katie sees in the parking lot of her mother's plant?

4. What does Katie say she would change about the plant if she owned it, and why?

5. What is Father's job at the hatchery?

6. What does Katie do that makes her parents angry with her, and how does she respond?

7. What do Father and Uncle Katsu do the night before the big move to Georgia?

8. Why does Katie feel so out of place on her first day of school?

9. What does Lynn hope to do to make money when she is older?

10. What happens to Lynn when Katie is 10-and-a-half-years old?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the ways that Lynn and Katie show their love to each other, and how do these displays alter the course of the plot?

Essay Topic 2

Silly was a minor character whose presence made a big difference in the plot. How does she accomplish this? What are some ways that her presence, however brief, alters the outcome of the plot? What would have happened differently if she had not been in the book at all?

Essay Topic 3

Each of the Takeshima siblings had very different characteristics and personalities. What are the defining features of each of the siblings, and how does their individuality affect the course of the plot?

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