View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name is no longer given to dogs at the shelter in "A Full Service Shelter"?

2. What type of disinfectant does the narrator of "A Full Service Shelter" use to clean cages and walls?

3. In "Sing to It," what does the man want the narrator to make from her hands?

4. How old is the daughter of the family who adopts the pit bull named Charlie in "A Full Service Shelter"?

5. Where do the narrator and Syd decide to ride out the storm in "I Stay with Syd"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Fort Bedd?

2. How are the dogs put down?

3. What does the narrator say about the affair between Syd and a married man?

4. What was the Presa Canarios, and why was the narrator afraid of the breed?

5. How does the narrator describe Mrs. Greed?

6. How do the narrator and other volunteers handle injuries they receive from handling the dogs?

7. How does Mrs. Greed get to and from the narrator's husband's house?

8. What does the narrator want to tell her aunt Lauryn, even though she is gone?

9. Why did Lauryn try to commit suicide in Madrid, and why did she survive?

10. What does the narrator need to get through the man's dying in "Fort Bedd"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In “I Stay with Syd,” two characters are having an affair. How would you describe the relationship between Syd and the married man? What does their relationship seem to be built upon, and how will that foundation affect their relationship?

Essay Topic 2

Foreshadowing in literature hints at what will happen in a story. What instances of foreshadowing are there in “Cloudland”? What does foreshadowing reveal? How does the author use foreshadowing and how does it affect plot?

Essay Topic 3

In “Cloudland” a neighbor is arrested for sexual abuse. How does this news affect the narrator? How does the news challenge the image of the neighborhood where the narrator lives?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 825 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample