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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. Who shows up at the Treski household before the second day of lemonade selling?
2. In Chapter 1, what does Jessie share with Evan about the upcoming weather?
3. What is a "slump"?
4. What is swarming above the fruit bowl at Evan's house?
5. Why do Evan and Scott's customers not buy lemonade when they come from a specific direction?
Short Essay Questions
1. At the start of the novel, Evan is throwing a baseball up and down, and he thinks, "The thought that if he missed he'd probably break his nose made the game just interesting enough" (1). Why might he feel this way?
2. How does Evan know that Jessie is not going to enter the Labor Day Contest?
3. How does Jessie get Megan to join her lemonade stand?
4. What are some behaviors Jessie notices about Carly Brownell when she arrives at Megan's house? What do they mean?
5. How do Evan and his friend, Paul, use a certain sales' tactic to make more money in Chapter 6?
6. At the end of Chapter 4, the reader is provided with an encounter through Jessie's perspective. How does Jessie remember seeing Evan at the end of their first day of sales?
7. On their second day of selling, why are Jessie and Megan not doing very well making money?
8. How and why does Evan express his anger toward his sister, Jessie, on Pages 3-10? Give specific examples.
9. Why do Jessie and Megan add snacks, hair braiding, and nail polishing to their stand?
10. Why is it strange for Jessie to skip a grade?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
On Pages 129 - 130, Jessie contemplates what her "true" earnings are, because she has Megan's earnings as well; they are supposed to donate them to a charity. How does Jessie feel about using Megan's money to win the war? How come it is such a difficult decision for her to make? What does that reveal about Jessie?
Essay Topic 2
Jessie finds signs from Evan's lemonade stand that say he is selling a cup of lemonade for ten cents. She cannot believe this low price and assumes that Evan has not made any money if he is selling it for so cheap. How is Evan still able to make a profit at this price? Use two pieces of textual evidence from Pages 84 - 86 for your explanation.
Essay Topic 3
On Pages 46 - 51, Jessie realizes that she has to start her own lemonade stand, because Evan will not let her join his. She has trouble figuring out how to get started, but after brainstorming for a while, she comes up with a couple plans. What are the ideas Jessie has? How does she carry through with her plans?
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