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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. In Chapter 11, what color scarf does Margery get for Fred as a gift from the librarians?

2. In Chapter 12, how much money does Van Cleve send with a note telling Alice to come back?

3. How long after Margery's brother Jack left home, did they hear about him again?

4. At the end of Chapter 6, who greeted Alice when she came home?

5. In Chapter 10, how many inches of ice would be needed to be hacked from the top of the well?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 9, why did Alice sleep in the dressing room?

2. In the Prologue, who always comes to meet Margery on her library trips?

3. In Chapter 7, who helped Alice after she was sprayed by a skunk?

4. What did Izzy say that she wanted to be in Chapter 6?

5. In Chapter 13, what does Van Cleve do to hurt Margery?

6. Where was the little blue book kept in Chapter 9 when someone was not reading it?

7. What encounter does Margery have in the Prologue, and how does she handle it?

8. In Chapter 5, how was Izzy doing as a librarian?

9. In Chapter 12, who steps up to help the librarians and why?

10. What are some gifts that the librarians get for Christmas?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How can the atmosphere in the town be described before and during the trial? What type of newspaper reporting is there? What type of gossip and information is circulated before and during the trial? How is the trial based upon sensationalism?

Essay Topic 2

The climax in a novel is the highest point of tension and a turning point. What is the climax of the novel and why is that incident the climax?

Essay Topic 3

Conflicts between characters are often caused by a problem. What are some conflicts that occur in the novel? Are the conflicts in the book mostly man vs. man, man vs. nature, or man vs. self? Are they internal or external conflicts?

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