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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 woke Jake up Saturday morning?

2. Who came to dinner on Sundays?

3. What does the cop tell Jake about his interest in finding Skelly?

4. How did Jake react a year before when Skelly kept asking him what the Cheerios were?

5. Why wouldn't Skelly get in the cab?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the police doing in the park as part of their search for Skelly?

2. How did Skelly react to getting back home?

3. What was the policeman like who helped Jake look for his grandfather?

4. What happens during Jake's morning routine?

5. What was happening when Jake came home from looking for Skelly?

6. What problem did Jake have with his book report, and how did his teacher response?

7. How did Jake reacted to the news of his grandfather's disappearance?

8. How did Jake spend the day when the police were looking in the park?

9. How did Jake feel about graduation three weeks before it happened?

10. What kind of relationship did Jake and James have with each other? How did it manifest itself at the dinner table?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the struggle the family has to maintain a "normal" life with Skelly around.

Essay Topic 2

How does Jake's graduation scene demonstrate how he has matured in his relationship with his grandfather? What led to this change?

Essay Topic 3

How does the author show the changes in Jake as he ages throughout the book? What new choices does he have in his life, and how does he decide to face these choices?

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