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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. Which of the following is the best definition for tongue-tied?
(a) Unwilling to speak due to orders or commands
(b) Mute
(c) Unable to speak from shyness or embarrassment
(d) Tongue is to big for the mouth

2. How does Gertie travel at the beginning of chapter one?
(a) Car
(b) Mule
(c) Truck
(d) Donkey

3. What question does Gertie ask Joe?
(a) Why doesn't your assistant speak English?
(b) How long did it take you to like your new life?
(c) How long would it take me to get home?
(d) How much are the vegetables?

4. How did Clovis pay for most of the items in the Detroit house?
(a) Credit
(b) He didn't pay for them, he stole them
(c) Cash
(d) Borrowed

5. Which of the following is a climactic reversal of fortune?
(a) Gertie wondering where Clovis is and when she will be able to buy the Tipton Place
(b) Cassie's difficulty learning to read
(c) Old John's preliminary agreement to sell the place
(d) Mother's manipulating Gertie into going into the city

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Gertie vomit?

2. When does Clovis leave for his physical?

3. Which of the following literary elements is not found in chapters six through nine?

4. Why does Gertie's mother say Gertie betrayed Clovis?

5. Why are the children quarrelsome at the end of chapter five?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the doctor immediately realize that Amos has?

2. How does the author let the reader know that the car is something the townspeople fear?

3. What happens to the children as Gertie's mother describes the possible life in Detroit?

4. What new information is learned about Max's relationship with her husband?

5. How much change does the officer give to Gertie for the ride into town?

6. What happens to ruin Gertie's dream of owning Tipton Place?

7. What joke does Gertie make with Cassie as they pass by the Tipton family house?

8. Describe Gertie's neighbor Sophronie Meanwell.

9. Gertie meets a black woman on the train. What does this woman tell Gertie which surprises Gertie?

10. What happens when Gertie finds out Henley wants to give her all the money he had been saving for his own farm?

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