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    book review
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  • Who is the author of the book?
    Christine Day
    Christine Morning
    Christine Night
    Christine Evening
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  • What is the opposite of the word "flimsy"?
    brittle
    stiff
    easily broken
    not hard
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  • Which word has the following definition, " unconvincing, lacking plausibility?"
    Flimsy
    substantial
    credible
    likely
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  • What situation would be best described as "cutthroat?"
    buying a baguette on Tuesday morning
    playing legos with friends
    the film industry and Hollywood
    Playing Minecraft on Nintendo Switch
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  • Why did the government remove Edie's mom from her family and send her to an orphanage?
    Edith had agreed to giving up her baby for adoption
    Edie's mom had a birth defect
    Edith died giving birth
    Her mother was unmarried native and uncle had a record
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  • "silence swoops down over the room like a bird of prey." What figurative language is in use?
    metaphor
    onomotopoeia
    personification
    simile
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  • What is a bird of prey?
    A bird that hunts other animals for food
    A bird that is being hunted by another animal
    A bird that is relgious
    A bird that doesn't lay eggs
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  • "Smiles aren't beautiful because of teeth. Smiles are beautiful because of a person's spirit." Who says this?
    Serenity
    Edith Grahman
    Lisa Miller
    Edie Miller
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  • "Smiles aren't beautiful because of teeth. Smiles are beautiful because of a person's spirit." Why was this spoken in the book? what was the context?
    Uncle Phil's duck smiled at him
    Edie thought after the braces she might not smile the same
    Edie's mom was worried about her teeth
    Edie's dad broke a tooth on a bone
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  • What is uncle Phil's job?
    He's a chef
    He is a fisherman
    He is a vet and takes care of sick animals
    He works in ecological restoration
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  • What happened to Edith and Uncle Theo?
    They live to be very old
    They both die young
    They are still alive
    They move to Los Angelas and begin a movie career
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  • Edie's mom states, "The American West has never been an empty wilderness." what does she mean?
    There is no place to go in the wilderness
    emptiness is in the heart
    There has always been people in America, Native Americans
    the west is a wild and scary place
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  • What was the name of the movie Edith had speaking parts in?
    When the West met East
    When the West was Ours
    When the west was Won
    When the west was Theirs
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  • What is pre-GPS?
    A time when people could tell directions
    time before navigation systems
    A time before maps
    A time before the compass
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  • Which words means, "irregular heart beat and rhythm?"
    my rhythm
    a rhythm
    arrhythmia
    off-beat
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  • Why did Edie and her mom get into an argument at the Cinema?
    Edie's mom had to go to the bathroom
    Edie wanted popcorn and her mom wouldn't buy it
    They couldn't decide on which candy to buy
    Edie saw a poster with Native and wanted to see that movie
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