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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 is Uncle Haskell holding?

2. Why do the kids run off before they see what their uncle is doing?

3. Who does Aunt Cordelia insist Julie invite?

4. What impact does this hostility have on the person in question #65?

5. Of what does Bill assure Julie?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Julie visits Laura and Bill and what does Bill tell her?

2. Why does Julie envy Laura but what does Laura feel that Julie cannot understand?

3. What does Aunt Cordelia try to do for the Kilpin family and how does she feel when she returns home?

4. Where does Julie go and what does she do after she is chastised by Aunt Cordelia over hitting Danny?

5. What challenges Aunt Cordelia most about teaching and what does she encourage Julie and the other girls to do? How do they feel about it?

6. From what type of family did Jonathan come?

7. How do Laura and Julie's father feel about her time with Uncle Haskell and what do they do about it?

8. What is a drastic change in Julie's life when she is ten? How is she involved in it?

9. How is Julie and Aggie's relationship the rest of the school year and what happens in the summer that bothers Julie?

10. What did the townspeople think of Aunt Cordelia tutoring Jonathan?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In this chapter, the author relies heavily on the use of memory as Laura recalls the story of Aunt Cordelia and Jonathan Eltwing and relays the story to Julie. In this way, the author can provide more information about Aunt Cordelia's character without the filters normally applied, when a person talks about himself.

1. What do you think is meant by this statement? Use examples from the book and your life to support your answer.

2. Do you think the way the author relayed information about Aunt Cordelia in chapter 5 was the best way to give this information? Why or why not?

3. Why do you think Laura talking to Julie can provide more information about Aunt Cordelia than her talking about herself?

Essay Topic 2

Uncle Haskell tells Julie that Aunt Cordelia exhibits the same characteristics as her own mother, who preferred Haskell to Cordelia. Julie vows that if she ever has children, she will never show favoritism of the boys over the girls.

1. Do you think that boys are preferred over girls in general? Why or why not?

2. If Julie believes that her brother is preferred over herself by her Aunt Cordelia do you think this would affect her feelings towards herself, her brother and her aunt? Why or why not?

3. What do you think Julie should do to make her aunt see her as important as a boy?

Essay Topic 3

The author brings to closure the foreshadowing used at the incident of Katy Eltwing's panic attack at the old creek bridge earlier in the book.

1. What do you think is meant by this statement?

2. Explain why or why not you thought the incident of Katy at the bridge was important to the story.

3. Do you think the panic attack Katy had at the bridge meant she could see the future? Why or why not?

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