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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 Sarah sleep with while staying at Jimmy's house?

2. What is Sarah's middle name?

3. What awakes Sarah on August 17th?

4. Who did Mother's courter once fight with?

5. What does Sarah yell at a chicken for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sarah find on Christmas Day while with the wagon train?

2. What does Jimmy do just before he dies?

3. Why do Jimmy and Sarah go to town by themselves?

4. What happens when Sarah finds a mutilated woman on the trail?

5. Why does Mama say Sarah had such a hard time recovering after having her daughter?

6. What happens when a woman has a still-born child on the wagon train, and why?

7. How does Sarah feel when Ernest and Captain Elliot leave the family?

8. What does Sarah say Jimmy spends a lot of time doing after she has the baby?

9. How does Jimmy die?

10. What does Albert announce shortly after arriving in San Angelo?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Adelita was a minor character whose presence made a big difference in the plot. How did she accomplish this? What are some ways that her presence, however brief, altered the outcome of the plot? What would have happened differently if she had not been in the book at all?

Essay Topic 2

Security and safety were two themes that were touched on a number of times throughout the course of this book. What are some of these instances, and how does this affect the characters in these scenes?

Essay Topic 3

Love was a very important theme and motivating factor in this book. Which characters were most affected by this theme? Which relationships were the most significant to the plot, and why?

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