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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 Palmer hear that lets him know the visitors are gone?
2. How do many of the pigeons come out of the boxes for the shoot?
3. When Dorothy tells him he is famous, how does Palmer respond?
4. Who comes to see Palmer's room and check that there is no pigeon in the room?
5. How does Beans react to Palmer's running away from the gang?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Palmer attempt to trick Nipper into not finding him again when he is with his friends? Describe his solution. Does it seem like this would work?
2. What other issue between Dorothy and Palmer comes up in Chapter 29? How does Palmer feel about the situation? How does he resolve it?
3. Palmer explains to Dorothy that he is conflicted about school ending. What is the conflict he feels? At the end of the chapter, the narrator says "But another school was about to begin." Can you guess what this school is, and why it is beginning?
4. When the gang finds out from Palmer what he did in school to deserve an after-school punishment, how do they react? How does Palmer feel? What else does he do in order to stay in school a little longer?
5. How does Palmer react when his mother tells he she and his father have known about Nipper for months?
6. What curious thing does Palmer notice at the Titans baseball game? What does it remind him of?
7. Palmer knows a lot about pigeons. What kinds of things does he know about releasing a pigeon so the bird will not be able to return home? How does he use this information with Nipper?
8. What example have Palmer and Nipper set for the children in the town? How can he tell his experience with Nipper has changed people's lives?
9. What does Dorothy tell Palmer at the shoot that upsets him? How does he treat Dorothy? How does she respond?
10. What does Palmer find written on the icing of his cake later in the evening of his birthday? Who does he believe wrote it? What does he think it means?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The novel ends with the words of a small child. What are those words, and why are they important? What do the words mean to Palmer?
Essay Topic 2
When Palmer goes over to Beans' house and meets his mother, he is surprised. Discuss what the house looks like, what Beans' mother is like, and why it is a surprise to Palmer.
Essay Topic 3
When Palmer and the gang go to the railroad station in the middle of the night to see the five thousand caged pigeons for the shoot, Palmer is faced once again with a conflict of emotions. Describe the conflict in Palmer's mind and how he deals with it.
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