| Question | Answer |
| 1. What was the setting of War of The Wall? | A small African American community in the South
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| | 2. What was the main conflict in the War of the Wall? | The children were unhappy that their wall was being painted by a strange lady
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| | 3. What impact did the setting have on the characters? | The children were possessive of and ready to defend the wall because it was IN their neighborhood.
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| | 4. What was the CLIMAX of the story the War of the Wall? | The community sees the mural and it reveals that it is dedicated to the people in the neighborhood.
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| | 5. Why is the fact that the wall is dedicated to the people in the community ironic? | The reader and the people in the story do not expect that to happen.
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| | 6. What about the character of the painter lady contributes to the community distrust in her? | The Painter Lady is not polite, does not eat their food, and does not explain to them ahead of time why she is painting the wall.
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| | 7. Themes that can be inferred from the text include. | Sometimes first impressions are not always right. Don't judge a book by its cover.
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| | 8. When an author writes in a way that shows how characters speak, based on where they live or their social status then they are using what technique to reveal more about their characters? | What a character says, dialect, and this is a type of indirect characterization.
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| | 9. What moment was the climax of the story; the point of greatest suspense when the characters actually experience their learning? | When the mural is revealed.
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| | 10.How is the conflict in the story resolved? | The community sees that the mural is dedicated to them and in memory of the Painter Ladies' cousin, one of their community members who died in the war.
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