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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. Where does Mary Call consider taking her family to live?

2. When does the weather change in Chapter 10?

3. Who asks Kiser if he wants to get married?

4. What kind of weather is happening when Mary Call and Romey refuse the ride home from school in Chapter 9?

5. In Chapter 13, someone offers Mary Call a ride on her way to the hospital and takes her somewhere on the way. Where?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the Thanksgiving dinner and their situation in general wearing on Mary Call in this chapter?

2. How does Devola remind Mary Call of Cosby Luther in this chapter, and how does she respond to it?

3. How does the blizzard take its toll on the Luthers?

4. Describe the continued feud between Mrs. Connell and Romey.

5. Once again, how do the other family members take out their frustration on Mary?

6. Why do you think Mary Call refuses Kiser's offer of money?

7. Is Kiser Pease going to take care of the Luthers?

8. Explain what the coming of the early spring could symbolize for the Luther family and what it means when it is quickly taken away.

9. How does Mary Call view education?

10. Why does Mary Call get upset with Romey in Chapter 12? Be sure to note how pride factors into this.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the meaning of the car for the Luther family and how does it lead to a break down in Mary Call's emotions?

Essay Topic 2

Describe two examples of Mary Call's major decisions in the book that affect the entire family but are made entirely on her own.

Essay Topic 3

Mary Call's independence is a central theme to the book. Why is she determined to be independent, and in what ways is she? How does she fail in this in some respects?

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