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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 happens when Dorothy and Palmer return to Palmer's bedroom?
2. Why is Palmer feeling so badly on his birthday?
3. What are the sacrifices Palmer sees he has made in order to save Nipper?
4. What do the boys run in to the den to look at again and again?
5. What does Palmer do to get himself detention after school?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Palmer begin to question his real reasons for sending Nipper away? What does he come to understand?
2. Palmer is not excited on his birthday, not thrilled with presents or the presence of his friends. Many things hang heavy in his mind. What are some of the things that are troubling Palmer on his tenth birthday?
3. Palmer makes his plan to avoid confrontation with Beans and Mutto on the night of his birthday. What is his plan, and does it work?
4. 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?
5. In Chapter 32, Beans and the gang take Palmer to find Farquar for his birthday Treatment. When Beans demands that Farquar give Palmer the Treatment, he is faced with a bully bigger than himself. How does Beans respond to Farquar? How does Palmer?
6. What kinds of harassment do Beans and the gang inflict on Palmer after he has walked away from the gang? Why?
7. What do the boys learn in wringer school? Who teaches the class? What does the teacher tell the boys is most important part of being a wringer?
8. After refusing The Treatment and leaving the gang, Palmer again places Nipper's needs above his. What does he decide to do next?
9. 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?
10. What curious thing does Palmer notice at the Titans baseball game? What does it remind him of?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Palmer tells Dorothy the story of learning how to float in a swimming pool. How does he relate this story to his relationship with Dorothy? Why does Palmer feel this way about Dorothy?
Essay Topic 3
The last scene between Dorothy and Palmer is one of anger and upset. Were there one more chapter, how might their friendship have been repaired based on what we know about their friendship? What part does Nipper play in their friendship?
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