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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 15 through 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What startles Hattie when she heads home and sees Nana and Papa's house?
(a) A police car is sitting outside.
(b) Adam is throwing a hysterical fit.
(c) Nana and Papa are dancing on the lawn.
(d) A fire truck is pulling up.

2. What does Hattie do when during lunch a family nearby stares at Adam?
(a) Hattie moves Adam to another picnic table.
(b) Hattie berates the family for having bad manners.
(c) Hattie stares at the mother.
(d) Hattie talks to the mother.

3. Why does Hattie think her parents never had more children?
(a) Money was too tight to have more than one.
(b) They would be cut out of Nana's will if they had more.
(c) They were afraid something would go wrong.
(d) They always wanted an only child.

4. What does Adam ask Hattie's friends, Nancy and Janet, when they walk by the house?
(a) If they know how to swim.
(b) If they want to go on a picnic.
(c) If they want some lemonade.
(d) If he can take a walk with them.

5. What is Hattie afraid to ask her mother?
(a) If she can travel with Leila this Summer.
(b) If she could go to a movie with a boy.
(c) If she can wear make-up to school.
(d) If she was afraid her own child might be like Adam.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Cookie's real name?

2. How does Leila get her education?

3. Why does Adam return to the boardinghouse later that day?

4. Why does Miss Hagerty not come downstairs for breakfast?

5. Why is Nana frantic when she calls the boardinghouse?

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