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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who receives a phone call at the beginning of Chapter 20?
(a) Codi.
(b) Hallie.
(c) Homer.
(d) Loyd.

2. What item, belonging to one of her students, causes Codi to give an emotional lecture about the environment in her class?
(a) A disposable mechanical pencil.
(b) Stonewashed jeans.
(c) A vinyl backpack.
(d) A styrofoam drinking cup.

3. Hallie's funeral is held under what kind of trees?
(a) Orange.
(b) Plum.
(c) Cherry.
(d) Pear.

4. Where does Codi care for Homer?
(a) She does not; Homer is dead.
(b) She does not; she put him in a nursing home.
(c) In Emelina's house.
(d) In the house Codi grew up in.

5. Who invites Codi to move to Telluride with him?
(a) J.T.
(b) Homer.
(c) Carlo.
(d) Loyd.

6. Whom does Codi confront about the tombstone she has found?
(a) Hallie.
(b) Her father.
(c) Loyd.
(d) Viola.

7. Why does Codi go to Tucson in Chapter 24?
(a) To get away from painful memories in Grace.
(b) To sign papers.
(c) To prepare her father's funeral.
(d) To tell Carlo that she is pregnant.

8. According to Codi, what distinguishes happy people from sad people?
(a) Being useful.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Parenthood.
(d) Having great parents.

9. Who tells Codi the myth of the badger?
(a) Dosa Althea.
(b) Carlo.
(c) Loyd.
(d) Uda.

10. Whose grave is Codi decorating in Chapter 28?
(a) Hallie's.
(b) Her baby's.
(c) Loyd's.
(d) Homer's.

11. How do Codi and Loyd spend the few days while the Stitch and Bitch Club are on their second excursion to Tucson?
(a) In Illinois, trying to find information about Codi's family.
(b) On vacation in Mexico.
(c) Touring cockfights in the neighboring counties.
(d) Roaming the New Mexico countryside.

12. How does Loyd's family react to Codi when they meet her?
(a) They are standoffish.
(b) They are cold because they think she is snobbish.
(c) They welcome her warmly.
(d) They are courteous, but they are wary of her.

13. What activity takes place after Christmas dinner?
(a) Caroling.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Siesta.
(d) Opening gifts.

14. Where has the kidnapped person been taken?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Honduras.
(c) Nicaragua.
(d) Mexico.

15. Why does Codi begin to cry in the car with Loyd in Chapter 24?
(a) One of Codi's relatives is buried at the graveyard they pass.
(b) The hitchhiker looks like Hallie.
(c) The protesters are being repelled with tear gas.
(d) A young woman was killed in the automobile accident.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is contained in Hallie's last letter to Codi?

2. Where is Hallie's funeral held?

3. What is the name of Loyd's brother?

4. What does the caller who reports the kidnapping suggest when asked for a phone number?

5. Codi reveals to her father in Chapter 27 that she has told whom about the baby?

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