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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 color dog do Jacquie and Opal get Lony?

2. In Chapter 21, where does Jacquie take Loother and Lony to get burritos?

3. How much of Sean's first year of high school does he spend at home?

4. Who gives Opal a box from her mother?

5. What is Vee's racial heritage?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 21, why do Loother and Lony have to go to an AA meeting with Jacquie?

2. Why does Orvil tell Lony not to cut his hair?

3. In Chapter 13, what does Orvil look up on the internet and why?

4. What happened to Sean's mother?

5. Where does Sean spend his first semester of high school, and how does he feel about that?

6. How does Lony think his cutting is different from the cutting kids at school do?

7. How does Orvil begin to feel about the pills and that he might run out?

8. What do Sean, Mike, and Orvil start selling for Tom?

9. What are two things that nearly make Jacquie drink again in Chapter 18?

10. What did Orvil and Sean used to do together in elementary school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Charles’s identity was stripped from him when he was a boy. How was his identity stripped from him, and how does it affect his life and who he is?

Essay Topic 2

Orvil, Loother, and Lony have been alienated from their cultural and ancestral heritage. How does that alienation affect how they define themselves and the choices they make as they grow up?

Essay Topic 3

Sean struggles to live with his brother and father after his mother died. Why does he struggle to live with them? How would you describe the relationship Sean had with his father and brother, and how it affects his life?

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