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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. When does Jade tell Peter they will see him again in Chapter 28?

2. What does Jade give Peter to offer a chicadee in Chapter 22?

3. In Chapter 19, when Pax senses Peter, how many people does he sense are with him?

4. About how far from where Jade and Peter are testing the river in Chapter 22 did some of Jade's family live?

5. In Chapter 24, how long is the mill operation pushed off because of the storm surge?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the river where Peter, Jade, and Samuel are in Chapter 22 special to Jade?

2. Why does Peter remember thinking he did not deserve a pet when he and his father when on a camping trip when he was eight?

3. How does Pax's daughter act during the three days the rest at the still pond in Chapter 19?

4. In Chapter 35, how do Peter and Pax spend the next two days?

5. In Chapter 25, how does the kit seem to be doing better?

6. What does Peter see in Chapter 32 when he starts down the hill?

7. What news does Runt bring Pax in Chapter 37?

8. Why does Peter throw something at Pax's kit in Chapter 38?

9. In Chapter 28, what does Peter remember about an encounter with a guard at the mill last year?

10. What does Peter remember happened to his mother's things after she died?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What points of view are used in Pax, Journey Home? How do these points of view influence what readers know about events and characters? How does changing the point of view between Peter and Pax help readers connect with and understand characters?

Essay Topic 2

In Pax, Journey Home, some characters are more thoroughly described than others. Who are some characters that are merely named in passing or have a minor role in the novel? What is the importance of these flat characters to the story line? In what way do these characters make the main characters more colorful or interesting? When there is conflict, what type of role do these flat characters play?

Essay Topic 3

Peter learns that there can be a different perspective to one incident. What are some different ways that Pennypacker shows there can be different perspectives to one incident? How does the author have Peter discover that fact?

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