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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 Mibs put on and then suddenly take off, according to the story?

2. Who is going to take the children to Salina, according to the story?

3. Who helps Mibs with her ill-fitting outfit, which is a surprising gesture to the reader?

4. Mibs explains to ________ about her ability to hear what drawings are telling her by demonstrating it.

5. Lill remarks about how ________ a woman Miss Rosemary is, according to the story.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mibs learn from the TV report when she is resting in the back of the restaurant, according to the book?

2. What happens after Will decides to kiss Mibs when they're in the pool together, according to the book?

3. What is the reason that Mibs gives for Lester not listening to Carlene anymore, according to the book?

4. What does it mean that a person needs to scumble a savvy, according to Mibs' mother?

5. What does Mibs do for the homeless man when she encounters him again, according to the book?

6. How does Mibs explain her savvy to Fish when he asks her about it in the diner, according to the book?

7. What happens to Mibs when she first walks into the diner, according to the book?

8. What are some of the ways that the savvies were revealed when the family gathered for grandmother's funeral, according to the book?

9. What does Lill tell Mibs as she is falling asleep that night in the hotel, according to the book?

10. What does Mibs realize about the police officer that looks a lot like Will, according to the book?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mibs' mother points out that while she always did things perfectly, that often meant she was lonely.

Part 1: Why do you think being perfect scares other people away?

Part 2: Would you want to be perfect in everything you did?

Part 3: Do you think it's possible for a person to be or to seem perfect?

Essay Topic 2

Rocket, Mibs' brother, says that girls never get earth-shattering savvies like he has, according to the book.

Part 1: Do you think girls can handle powerful savvies like Rocket's?

Part 2: Why do you think Rocket likes to point out his powerful savvy to others?

Part 3: How do you think Rocket might respond if Mibs had a powerful savvy?

Essay Topic 3

The savvies that are given to the children don't arrive until the children are 13, according to the book.

Part 1: Why are savvies not given to children until they are 13?

Part 2: Do you think children could use their savvies at a younger age? An older age?

Part 3: What do you think the perfect age for receiving special powers might be? Why?

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