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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. For the dance in "The Circle," what color ribbons does Asema wear in her hair?

2. When did everything shut down?

3. Who starts working with Tookie after Flora gets bolder?

4. In "Haunted City," what car does Asema borrow from her mother?

5. If Tookie approves of a book choice, what does she draw on a card as whe wraps books for delivery?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jackie tell Tookie about wearing red?

2. What type of dog does Roland Waring have, and where did he get the dog?

3. What playlist does Tookie make, and how does Flora respond?

4. Why does Tookie want to quit working at the bookstore, and why does Jackie tell her she cannot?

5. In "May 30," why does Tookie not make a grand exit after yelling at Pollux?

6. In "The Boulevard," what does Hetta remember happened during the march?

7. How does Pollux calm Tookie after Flora attacks her?

8. How does Louise feel about the bookstore?

9. What is a signal event?

10. In "Burning the Ghosts," what does Tookie burn and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What a reader knows about events and characters is determined by the point of view in a book. What is the point of view in the book? How does the author use different points of view? How do these points of view influence what readers know about events and people?

Essay Topic 2

Idioms are words that have a figurative, rather than a literal meaning. How does the author use idioms in the book? Why are the idioms sometimes difficult to understand? Why do the idioms often require research to understand their meaning?

Essay Topic 3

A 102-year-old elm tree falls in Tookie’s backyard. What does the tree falling communicate about mortality? How does it cause Tookie to examine her mortality?

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