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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 does Gilly's grandmother promise before she leaves?
(a) That she would never come back again.
(b) That she would return the next day.
(c) That she would get Gilly out of there soon.
(d) That she would find Courtney.

2. Why does Gilly pull her mother's picture out from under her T-shirts?
(a) She wants to give it to her grandmother.
(b) She feel she doesn't have to hide the picture in a drawer any longer.
(c) She wants to sleep with it.
(d) She wants to see her mother's smiling face.

3. In Chapter 12, what does Gilly promise William Ernest she would do?
(a) Come visit him.
(b) Write to him.
(c) Have him come to her new home for summer vacation.
(d) She doesn't promise anything.

4. What is Mrs. Trotter's reaction when Gilly admits taking money from Mr. Randolph?
(a) She is very angry.
(b) She isn't at all surprised.
(c) She smacks Gilly's knuckles with a ruler.
(d) She is shocked.

5. What does Gilly teach William Ernest?
(a) How to run really fast.
(b) How to defend himself.
(c) How to steal.
(d) How to play hop-scotch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What statement does Miss Ellis make when Gilly tells her she remembers her mother?

2. How does Gilly react when William Ernest interrupts her visit with her grandmother to tell her he wet himself?

3. How does Gilly's grandmother first find out about her?

4. What doesn't Mrs. Trotter like about Gilly's lessons?

5. In the beginning of Chapter 9, who is fighting with Mrs. Trotter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn't Gilly feel her mother's picture fit in her new room?

2. What happens during the night that both hurts and helps Gilly regarding her move?

3. What is the exciting news when Gilly writes her final letter in the novel to her foster family?

4. What is Mrs. Ellis's concern when she talks to Mrs. Trotter about Gilly's problems?

5. What becomes clear in the letters exchanged between Miss Harris and Gilly?

6. What does Gilly realize about her grandmother after she learns the woman lost her son in the war, her daughter when she ran away, and her husband four years earlier to death?

7. What does Gilly's grandmother try to do as she prepares for her daughter's visit?

8. In Chapter 12, who else is Gilly surprisingly sad to be leaving?

9. What happens when Mr. Randolph gets sick?

10. What does Gilly intend to do with all the money she has stolen?

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