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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 Josie give to Hollis for Christmas?

2. Hollis recalls Beatrice saying that ____________ is a language one has to learn to speak.

3. What happens to Josie when she ventures outside?

4. Josie says that she wishes Hollis could ______________________.

5. Why is the girl in Hollis' Thirteenth Picture, the Conference Room not Hollis?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Hollis and Josie prepare for Christmas Eve at the summer house?

2. Why does Hollis run away from the Regans' home after the truck accident and refuse to see any of them again?

3. What touching scene does Hollis create in her Ninth Picture, Izzy's Cake?

4. Describe how Hollis quickly prepares for her escape trip with Josie.

5. How does Hollis try to distract Josie who starts to get homesick?

6. Why does Hollis not actually draw the Eleventh Picture, On the Mountain?

7. What is Steven's response when Hollis tells him the reason why she did not want to go back to the Regans' house?

8. How can Hollis draw her Tenth Picture, Hollis Woods, with her eyes closed?

9. Why does Hollis not want to think about leaving the summer house even though Josie's mental capacities are shrinking and she is homesick?

10. Why does Hollis not ask Josie about the green sweater now hanging in the shed but which Hollis had left at the riverbank the day she saw someone on the opposite bank?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the lives of Hollis and Steven. How are their circumstances similar? In what ways are their lives different? What draws them together to make them friends? What could have threatened to kill a friendship even before it began?

Essay Topic 2

Create a brief character study of Steven. What did he look like? What were his positive personality traits? What were his dreams and fears? What was most valuable to him in his world?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the importance of drawing pictures in Hollis' life. What do the pictures represent? Why are the pictures so emotionally important to Hollis? Is this the only way she can express her feelings?

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