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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 Grandma survive in her youth?
2. What is Grandma wearing at the beginning of Chapter 8?
3. What does Brent have with him that could make his journey easier?
4. Who is Trish?
5. Who visits while Brent is making the wooden band whirligig?
Short Essay Questions
1. What effect do her parents' actions concerning their Jewish heritage have on Jenny?
2. Why does Brent refuse to use the Visa card which his parents have given him for the trip? What does this say about his new sense of responsibility?
3. Which whirligig is at Tony's summer campground? How does Tony feel about the whirligig?
4. How does the boy's interest in the whirligig affect Brent?
5. How is dinner at the hostel different from Brent's dinner at home with his parents?
6. What does Tony finally write in his journal? What does he do to emphasize the truth in his entry?
7. What does Tony tell Mr. Mintz about his summer vacation? How does Mr. Mintz use this information to help Tony?
8. Why is it easy for Brent to interact with the children as he builds the whirligig?
9. What does the whale whirligig represent to Grandma?
10. About what do the children warn Brent regarding the location of the wooden band whirligig?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the symbolism of the whirligig and its ability to sew seeds of wishes into the future. Does the whirligig really have that power, or do the characters using guided imagery actually bring about their desired outcomes through their own actions?
Essay Topic 2
At the beginning of the book, Brent's self-worth is based on material things.
1) Provide details about Brent's behavior that support the above statement.
2) Discuss aspects of Brent's family life which could have precipitated his false value system.
Essay Topic 3
The campground setting appears several times in the book. Why is this setting so prevalent? Why is it appropriate for the first and last whirligig to be constructed on a campground?
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