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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Marilyn was gone, what would James usually serve the children for lunch ad dinner?
(a) Peanut butter and jelly.
(b) Dry cereal.
(c) Canned soup.
(d) Scrambled eggs.

2. Where had Nathan gone for four days in Chapter 1?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Yale.
(c) Class trip.
(d) Grandparents.

3. Where did Marilyn go to high school?
(a) Virginia.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Ohio.
(d) North Carolina.

4. In Chapter 1, what time did Nath hear a radio in Lydia's room?
(a) Midnight.
(b) Dawn.
(c) 1 a.m.
(d) 11:30 p.m.

5. How old was Lydia when she received her first diary as a Christmas gift?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Marilyn when Nath was in first grade?

2. What was Marilyn studying in July when she was living in Toledo?

3. When Mrs. Allen, a neighbor, asked James how long Marilyn would be gone, what did he tell her?

4. In Chapter 8, how is the dock at the lake decorated near the fourth of July?

5. What radio station does Lydia's father listen to on the way to work in Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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