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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 is NOT a quality shared by the students, other than Wanda, who sit in her section of the classroom?

2. The narrator states that though Wanda does not have any friends, "a lot of girls" (9) wait for her under what kind of trees on Oliver Street?

3. What is the name of the student who is chronically late to class?

4. The sun shining on the body of water at the end of Maple Street had turned the water from blue to what color?

5. From what country had Wanda's family originally hailed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe an instance when Estes uses a simile to indicate a character's emotional state.

2. How does the illustration on the final page of the chapter entitled "The Dresses Game" intertwine with one the chapter's themes?

3. What is symbolized by the piece of broken mirror with which Maddie plays while listening to the girls talk about Cecile's dress?

4. What does Maddie suspect about the motivation for Wanda's announcement about her 100 dresses?

5. What is Peggy's motivation for playing the hundred dresses game with Wanda?

6. What evidence suggests that English may not be Wanda's first language?

7. What is Estes's purpose for introducing the detail about one girl's mother having bought her a new dress made out of Stuart plaid material?

8. What timeline is presented within the chapter entitled "Wanda" in regard to Wanda's absences?

9. How does Wanda demonstrate courage in the face of great fear on the day of the hundred dresses game's invention?

10. What is the significance of the chapter title for "A Bright Blue Day" (19)?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What messages does Estes send about culpability and what themes are employed in order to send these messages to the reader?

Essay Topic 2

Explicate the theme of courage within The Hundred Dresses. What is Estes’s message regarding courage and how do you know?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Estes’s use of the motif of sound within her children’s book The Hundred Dresses.

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