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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what do the Meanwell and Daly children play?
(a) Garden hose
(b) Sprinkler
(c) Toy cars and trucks
(d) Wooden blocks which remind Gertie of her carvings

2. Which of the following best describes Flint?
(a) Maggi's beau
(b) Gertie's best customer for her dolls
(c) The company's combative owner
(d) Mr. Daly

3. What type of fight do Gertie's children get into in chapter sixteen?
(a) Snowball
(b) Karate
(c) Verbal
(d) Fist

4. Why does Clytie say that Clovis is angry and throws the pan out into the snow?
(a) Venting his frustrations over his shift change
(b) Abusing Gertie
(c) Ruining her life
(d) Drinking

5. What does Gertie dream of in Chapter 28?
(a) Being back in her own land where flowers and vegetables were growing
(b) Killing herself on the train tracks
(c) Cassie being alive and playing with her
(d) Escaping from Clovis and returning to Kentucky alone

6. Where does Gertie want to take Cassie after she dies?
(a) Kentucky
(b) To the Tipton Place
(c) Back to her childhood farm
(d) Back to the complex

7. How much does Mr. Anderson pay for the carving of the hen Gertie has done?
(a) $1.50
(b) $1
(c) $2.50
(d) $0.50

8. What mistake does Gertie make related to Easter?
(a) Buys Clovis a present which he dislikes
(b) Refuses to celebrate Easter
(c) Buys too much candy for her family
(d) Tries to shop on Good Friday

9. How many children do the Dalys have before Mrs. Daly gives birth to the new baby girl?
(a) 2
(b) 5
(c) 3
(d) 8

10. According to what Max tells Gertie, who controls Max's life and tells her how to live?
(a) The Daly's
(b) Victor's mother
(c) Victor
(d) No one, she controls her own life

11. What happened to all of Gertie's savings?
(a) Paid for funeral, casket and headstone
(b) Paid for hospital bills, funeral and casket
(c) Clovis put it in the bank to keep saving money
(d) Paid for funeral and casket

12. Which of Gertie's children is involved in the fight with the Daly children which Gertie witnesses?
(a) Whit
(b) Reuben
(c) Cassie
(d) Enoch

13. Which of the following characters wins the lottery?
(a) Gertie
(b) Mr. Daly
(c) Max
(d) Mrs. Anderson

14. Which word best describes how injured Clovis is when he is beaten?
(a) Critically
(b) Barely
(c) Mortally
(d) Seriously

15. What does Max ask for when he comes to Gertie?
(a) A place to stay
(b) Lottery ticket
(c) A new husband
(d) A dream

Short Answer Questions

1. What kinds of food does Mrs. Anderson feed her children which would upset her husband?

2. What happens to the union leader who wants to go on strike?

3. Which of the following characters does Gertie find out leads a double life?

4. What happens to Cassie at school which causes the other children to tease her and for her to become more withdrawn?

5. Which child's conference at school went worst?

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