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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9 and 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Penny's mother ask her to do as she gets ready to go out to dinner?
(a) To do her homework.
(b) To listen to a classical music program on the radio.
(c) To help Me-me with the chores.
(d) To lay out her school clothes to wear the next day.

2. What state is the setting of the story?
(a) New Jersey.
(b) New York.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Maine.

3. What does Penny pay for with earnings from her job?
(a) Part of the household finances.
(b) Medicine for Nonny.
(c) A new hairbrush and mirror set for her mother.
(d) A spring bouquet of flowers for Me-me.

4. Which of the following causes of death do Penny's relatives give her when she asks about how her father died?
(a) Leukemia.
(b) Heart attack.
(c) Cancer.
(d) Pneumonia.

5. Which of the following is Penny struck by when her Uncle Dominic drives her home?
(a) An idea to surprise her mother with a present.
(b) A yearning for chocolate ice cream.
(c) The difference in her mother's family and her father's family.
(d) A hardball that crashes through the car windshield.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Penny's mother wearing in the photo behind which Penny's father wrote, "I am the luckiest fella ever"?

2. What nationality is that of Penny's father's family?

3. Who does Penny help with the laundry?

4. Which of the following is the name of Penny's mother?

5. Which of Penny's birthdays is coming up?

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