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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. How is the camper like Gramma's basement?
2. Why does the family not have any money?
3. Why does Dad tell the narrator he has to put back all the items he had picked out at the camper superstore?
4. Why does Mom have the clerk at the camper superstore go over the supplies Dad had picked out?
5. Greg thinks back to the day before when the entire family agreed their trip is what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are two things that the narrator likes about the camper?
2. What does the family discover about Uncle Gary’s camper? How does this change their day?
3. Where do all the family members want to go on vacation?
4. Why does the narrator wish he had been born a bit sooner?
5. Why does Dad think the national forest would be a good place to go?
6. Why does Mom not like the fact her family is lounging around the campsite at the national forest?
7. Why is the basement an uncomfortable place to live?
8. What are two encounters the family has with wildlife in this section of the book? What are the outcomes?
9. How did the family end up going off the main road?
10. What are two mishaps as the family takes back roads to seek their own adventures?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The narrator has strong opinions about other characters and events in this story. What are two of his strongest opinions? Why might he have strong opinions? What do these reveal about him and his personality?
Essay Topic 2
The characters learn a great deal in this book. What are three things the family learns, as a whole? What evidence in the book supports this? How are they affected by these lessons?
Essay Topic 3
The family struggles to have fun throughout this story. Do they ever have fun? Why or why not? What is the lesson that can be learned from this?
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