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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 Asa realize when he wakes in the night?

2. What color balloon does Asa get at the boardwalk?

3. What does Asa realize is hiding inside him?

4. How easily does Asa make friends in his new classroom?

5. What Roman character is Asa assigned to be in an oral presentation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the name of the new poem that Asa picks out and what struggle does Asa have with Joel regarding the new poem?

2. How does Dave behave with Asa around, and what does Asa's mother do to try to minimize Dave's bad behavior?

3. Who is Bobby Levy?

4. What news does Asa get from his mother when he returns home from school, and how does he respond to the news?

5. Who is Asa's fourth grade teacher and why does he like her?

6. How does Asa react to the roller coaster ride?

7. Who does Asa see at the back of the auditorium as he is waiting backstage at Show Night?

8. What is Show Night, and who is Asa teamed with to do a presentation?

9. Who is Dave and how do he and Asa get along at their first meeting?

10. What do Dave, Asa and Asa's mother do after dinner on their first night together?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the greatest lesson Asa learns from Jean? Is it that important lessons are also painful ones? What will Asa always recall about his first love?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the overall setting for the story. Why does the author use the setting she does? What is the time period of the story? How important is the time period to the attitudes and issues of the characters?

Essay Topic 3

The author used more than one iteration on the theme of loss. Identify at least two examples about loss in the book and then explain why the examples support the theme.

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