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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What explanation does Natalie give for where she parks her wheelchair?
(a) She wants the kids to really look at her and see her as a person.
(b) The puppy won't move.
(c) The wheelchair won't fit through the classroom door.
(d) The battery is dead.

2. How does Tuli try to impress people?
(a) By speaking in pig Latin.
(b) By speaking in Spanish.
(c) By adding large numbers in her head.
(d) By writing beautiful cursive poems.

3. What is the combination of English and Spanish called?
(a) Spanglish.
(b) Castillian Spanish.
(c) There is no name for it.
(d) Pidgen Spanish.

4. What is Natalie allowed to bring to school?
(a) A puppy.
(b) A goldfish.
(c) An electric throw.
(d) A heart monitor.

5. Why does Tuli sob in the bathroom one day?
(a) Natalie won't let Tuli pet her puppy.
(b) Natalie's puppy bites her.
(c) Another girl who really knows Spanish calls her on her bad language skills.
(d) Natalie confronts her and tells her how mean Tuli is.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the likely reason for Natalie's baldness?

2. How is Dreenie surprised when she is downstairs?

3. How does Natalie think the kids have been around her?

4. Why does Dreenie want to go down to the apartment's lobby?

5. What does Dreenie's mother think is possibly wrong with Natalie?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dreenie notice about Bluish's attendance in school?

2. What does Dreenie say is the reason she is writing a journal and what does she admire about Bluish?

3. Who is Dreenie's best friend, what does she do to impress people and what sent her sobbing to the bathroom?

4. What does Dreenie convince her mother to let her do about her father?

5. What are Dreenie's thoughts about Bluish's appearance, what does she want to do about Bluish's puppy and what does she think about the puppy coming to school?

6. What makes Bluish different from other children, and who comes to school with her?

7. What does Bluish do at school and what does she ask Dreenie? How does Dreenie mistake her question?

8. What does Dreenie wonder about Tuli and Tuli's behavior but what is her ultimate decision about being friends with Tuli?

9. How does Dreenie feel about her sister and for what is her sister known?

10. Where is Dreenie and her sister at the beginning of Chapter 1 and what does the place look like?

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