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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. Min and Evie find phone books from what years in Chapter 34?

2. In Chapter 36, what does Posy show her father?

3. In Chapter 27, when do Paul and Seth plan to come to the island?

4. In Chapter 25, who does Dick Sherman say that Kitty Milton wanted to give Moss's share of the island?

5. In Chapter 28, what instrument did Fenno bring to play?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Min say about selling the island in Chapter 8?

2. At the end of Chapter 19, how often were Len and Joan meeting?

3. What were Kitty's thoughts when she watched Len and Reg walk toward her and the others?

4. What did Len and Joan do at the beginning of Chapter 19?

5. What does Dick Sherman reveal to Evie and her cousins about a request from their grandmother?

6. Why did Len find himself wandering through Pennsylvania Station in Chapter 18?

7. In Chapter 28, what did Moss tell Joan?

8. Who was Evie's father and what does she remember about him in Chapter 30?

9. In Chapter 29, who arrived at the end of the chapter, and what did Joan think when she saw them?

10. Who joins the Miltons on the island, and what do they bring in Chapter 28?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How were the Miltons labelled and perceived by other characters in the novel. Did they live up to these assumptions, or did they defy them?

Essay Topic 2

What did Moss mean when he had the idea that blacks and whites could walk through the same doors? What is conveyed about the limitation of race or religious background through his ideas and conversations with Reg?

Essay Topic 3

Moss was a troubled man who was not looking forward to becoming a banker. What did Moss long to do? How did the loss of his dreams lead to his death?

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