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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 Reuben want to buy with the money he earns from tearing down the corncrib?

2. Who wrote the book that Stube was reading the night that Davy escaped.

3. Who did Helen marry after she left Jeremiah?

4. Which deputy, during the first two weeks that Davy is in jail, reads some of the letters that Davy receives?

5. Whose birthday is on December 16?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Jeremiah suddenly run inside the hospital?

2. What happened to Jeremiah when the tornado roared through?

3. Who does Swede have rescue Sunny from the noose and why does that bother Reuben?

4. Why did an ambulance have to take Lurvy and another man when Lurvy became sick?

5. What happened when Swede chases the goose shot by Reuben?

6. Describe Mrs. DeCuellar.

7. Why is Jeremiah fired from his job as janitor at the elementary school?

8. How do the Lands spend Christmas Eve in 1962?

9. What happens to Swede while Reuben and his father attend church?

10. What does Reuben hear and see when he gets up in the night at the Schultz's to use the outhouse?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how the police respond when they learn about Swede's capture by Israel Fisher and Tommy Basca.

Support your statements with examples and quotes from the book.

Essay Topic 2

While testifying at Davy's trial, Reuben becomes self-confident and prideful. Discuss how and why pride overtakes Reuben when testifying at his brother's trial. Support your statements with examples and quotes from the book.

Essay Topic 3

Using examples from the book, discuss what prayer means to Jeremiah. Support your statements with examples and quotes from the book.

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