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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bryce set out for people to put money in when he performs with Edward in Chapter 20?
(a) Bryce's hat.
(b) Sarah Ruth's button box.
(c) Bryce's mother's suitcase.
(d) Bryce's father's guitar box.

2. What is described in Chapter 17 as "the saddest sound that Edward had ever heard" (126)?
(a) The howling of the wolf.
(b) Sarah Ruth's coughing.
(c) The caws of crows.
(d) The crying of the baby.

3. What does Bryce say his mother used to do with Sarah Ruth that she loved in Chapter 18?
(a) Dance.
(b) Draw.
(c) Bake.
(d) Play piano.

4. What do the other tramps frequently ask Bull to do when they gather together at campfires?
(a) They ask him to play his flute.
(b) They ask him to play his guitar.
(c) They ask him to sing.
(d) They ask him to cook.

5. Who rushes at Edward from the door of the house in Chapter 22?
(a) Lucy.
(b) Anna.
(c) Jessica.
(d) Abilene.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bryce transform Edward into in Chapter 18?

2. How does Edward become separated from Bull and Lucy in Chapter 14?

3. Who does Edward think the old woman is that comes to watch Edward and Bryce perform on the street corner in Chapter 20?

4. What does Bryce order to drink at the diner in Chapter 21?

5. What does Bryce's father do before leaving the home in the beginning of Chapter 18?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is different about Edward in his dream in Chapter 22?

2. What do the hobos whisper to Edward? Why?

3. Who is Lucius Clarke and what are Edward's perceptions of this character?

4. How do Bull, Lucy, and Edward travel? Where do they go?

5. Where does Bryce go to eat in Chapter 21? What does he order?

6. Whom does Edward encounter in his dream in Chapter 22?

7. How and why does Bryce manage to make Edward dance?

8. How does Edward become separated from Bull and Lucy?

9. Why and how is Edward prevented from departing in the dream in Chapter 22?

10. How is Bryce and Sarah Ruth's father described?

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