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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. Which of the Story siblings has to worry about sunburn?

2. In Chapter 5, how long have the cousins been on Gull Cove Island?

3. What month is it in Chapter 1?

4. Where does Jonah North live?

5. What is the balance in Jonah's checking account in Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jonah describe Aubrey when he meets her?

2. What game do Milly and her friends like to play?

3. How does Mildred react when her children want to go to Rob Valentine's party in June of 1996?

4. How is Mildred suffering after her husband's death, and how is it affecting everyone?

5. What does Milly learn about Jonah?

6. What does Catmint House look like from the outside?

7. Why is Matt Ryan disliked by Anders?

8. How does Allison bribe Milly into going to Gull Cove Island for the summer?

9. What does Aubrey reveal her father did that has affected her family in Chapter 10?

10. What money did Jonah have for college and what happened to it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Milly makes a comment to Aubrey that the "Story family is seriously messed up" (109). Why does Milly make that comment? What do other characters say about the family and whether it is normal or abnormal? Is the family eccentric of dysfunctional?

Essay Topic 2

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

Essay Topic 3

Idioms are words that have a figurative, rather than a literal meaning. How does the author use idioms in the book? Why are the idioms sometimes difficult to understand? Why do the idioms often require research to understand their meaning?

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