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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. The day after the funeral, where does Ellen prepare to go?
(a) School.
(b) The skating rink.
(c) Church.
(d) The mall.
2. Why doesn't Ellen tell anyone about her problems with her father?
(a) She was worried she'd get in trouble.
(b) She didn't have any problems.
(c) She was scared and untrusting.
(d) She didn't care about her problems.
3. In Ellen's new life with her new mama, what runs smoothly?
(a) Her mother's heart.
(b) Her car.
(c) Her world.
(d) Her horse.
4. How does Ellen's father die?
(a) Natural Causes.
(b) Suicide.
(c) Alcoholism.
(d) Murder.
5. Who visits Ellen at school after she is a ward of the state?
(a) No one.
(b) A psychiatrist.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her father.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Ellen feel about her aunt?
2. From what room does Ellen observe her family from?
3. How many siblings does Ellen have at her new mother's house?
4. What item spills out of Ellen's mother's purse?
5. When Ellen returns to school after the funeral, what does one teacher bluntly ask her?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the fact that Ellen is concerned with snakes in her new life hint at how she feels about the members of her family?
2. How is Ellen's grandmother's removal of Ellen's mother's clothes symbolic to the story?
3. What are some of the fun and leisure activities Ellen is granted in her new home?
4. At the funeral, why does Ellen avoid looking at her mother's grave?
5. In what ways does the author indicate that Ellen's father killed Ellen's mother?
6. Why does Ellen have conflicting views about Starletta's family?
7. How does the author create a reversal of the mother-daughter role in the novel?
8. How does Ellen's selection of gifts show that Ellen has to take responsibility for herself?
9. In what ways has Ellen's mother's family shown that they do not care if Ellen is being neglected?
10. Why does Ellen feel that her relatives are phonies?
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