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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 has Kim done to her own plants in the chapter “Wendell”?

2. In what year did Ana move into the area?

3. Why has Kim never seen her father?

4. Whose picture is Kim staring at during the opening of the book?

5. What caused Ana to dig up the object she saw being burried?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do you think Wendell becomes attached to the bean plants, as Ana did?

2. Why do you think Ana attempts to correct her mistake?

3. What are Leona’s experiences with calling the city?

4. Why do you think Kim wants to remain hidden when she plants?

5. How do the plants give Wendell hope?

6. Why does Kim wonder about whether her father sees her?

7. Describe the bottle incident, and Sam’s fears.

8. What does Gonzalo learn about his equation by the end of the chapter “Gonzalo”?

9. Why does Leona want to plant goldenrod?

10. What were Leona’s grandmother’s experiences with doctors?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the characters of Ana and Amir. What are their similarities? What are their differences? How do these characters lead readers to different lessons pertaining to the power of human kind?

Essay Topic 2

Royce does not have a chapter in the novel, and yet he is mentioned by several characters. Who mentions him, and why? What does Royce’s character bring to the novel that enhances the author’s message? What is Royce’s background, and how do people see him originally? How does this change over the course of the novel, and why?

Essay Topic 3

Throughout the novel, the characters mention fighting a number of stereotypes. Choose three characters from the book, and explain how their lives have been impacted by the stereotypes either about them, held by others, or held by them about others. How do these stereotypes damage their relationships with others? What, if anything, changes them in the novel?

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