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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 does Rowena do after remembering the day in Blinn's tent?

2. What is the situation when Adam wakes the next morning?

3. What does Rowena wonder about Polly?

4. What does Sam feed Henry?

5. What does Adam notice at four neighboring farms?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Adam hear as he is going to bed and what does his pa say about it?

2. What does Rowena tell Henry and Sam and what is Henry's response?

3. What surprises Adam and his mother?

4. What does Adam's father say about Uncle Poot and what is Adam's response?

5. What do Rowena's parents hear and then learn when they investigate?

6. What does Stew Meat realize and what does he do?

7. What does Adam's ma tell him when he goes down to breakfast?

8. Why does Adam's pa make a raft and what do they do with the raft?

9. What does Adam do after school and how do Eunice and Agatha and others treat him?

10. What does Adam hear about the well on his family's farm and what does he suggest to his pa about the situation?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Wish Giver belongs to the children's book genre. Discuss the following:

1. Define the literary term "genre" and give several examples of three other genres in addition to the children's book genre.

2. Discuss two reasons why it might be useful to label a text by genre and two reasons it might be disadvantageous to label a text by genre.

3. What do you think is the difference between a children's book and a historical novel mystery?

Essay Topic 2

Many novels, and perhaps a majority, of novels ends on a happy note. Discuss the following:

1. Why do you think many (most?) people want what they perceive as a happy or good ending to a novel? Explain your opinion. Do you? Why or why not?

2. What are three reasons to read fiction? Discuss each one in light of "The Wish Giver" and whether or not it fulfills all three, two or one of the reasons you mention. Give examples as to why The Wish Giver is or is not successful in fulfilling the reasons you discuss.

3. Do you think reading solely for entertainment is as good a reason to read as any other? Why or why not? Can any work of fiction or non-fiction, no matter how poorly written, enlighten, teach, stimulate thought? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

An element common to all three stories continues to manifest. This is the idea that in each story, characters with negative attributes are clearly and vividly contrasted with characters who have opposite, more positive attributes.

1. Who is the positive character(s) who are contrasted to Polly's character? Discuss how they contrast and what Polly might be able to learn from that character(s).

2. Who is the positive character(s) who are contrasted to Rowena's character? Discuss how they contrast and what Polly might be able to learn from that character(s).

3. Who is the positive character(s) who are contrasted to Adam's character? Discuss how they contrast and what Polly might be able to learn from that character(s).

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