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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 Zinkoff do when someone on the playground takes his hat?

2. What is the first thing Zinkoff learns at school?

3. Where does Mrs. Zinkoff put Polly's crib when Zinkoff is home?

4. Why did Mrs. Biswell become a teacher?

5. What does Zinkoff's sister get that makes him jealous?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Zinkoff react to his first soccer game?

2. Why does Zinkoff cry when he leaves Willow Drive?

3. What does Andrew's father think of the neighborhood, and why?

4. How does Zinkoff describe his first day of school to his mother?

5. What happens when a bully tries to take Zinkoff's hat on the playground?

6. What special gift does Zinkoff make for Andrew?

7. What makes Zinkoff feel like the Waiting Man?

8. What do Zinkoff and his father do on Willow Street?

9. Why is Andrew sulking when his new neighbors come to visit?

10. What does the narrator say the children do not notice about Zinkoff at a young age?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Personal identity was one of the main themes in this book. Where did this theme appear, and how did its inclusion in the novel shape the course of the plot?

Essay Topic 2

What were some of the forms of foreshadowing used in this book, and how did those moments affect the course of the plot?

Essay Topic 3

Zinkoff presented a very interesting and unique philosophy on life. What was this philosophy, and how did this different idealism affect the people around him?

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