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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 Beatrice ask Hollis to do before she leaves?
(a) Take care of Josie.
(b) Do the dishes.
(c) Take Josie's check to the bank.
(d) Feed the cat.

2. Hollis happy because she hears the Old Man and Izzy talking about ______________________.
(a) sending her to art school.
(b) building a room on to their house for her.
(c) teaching her to ski.
(d) taking her on vacation with them.

3. What do Josie and Hollis eat every night?
(a) Bologna.
(b) Soup.
(c) Salad.
(d) Rice.

4. What is Josie working on in Chapter 5?
(a) A marble sculpture.
(b) The wooden figure of Hollis.
(c) A watercolor.
(d) A tile mosaic table.

5. What does Hollis tell the Old Man that everyone says about her?
(a) She is slow.
(b) She is talented.
(c) She is gifted.
(d) She is trouble.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Steven try to teach Hollis to drive in the old truck?

2. What does Josie tell Hollis as she twirls in the street?

3. Josie collects some seawood to use as ___________________.

4. What does the Mustard Woman want to know when she locates Hollis and Josie?

5. What vehicle is Steven working on while Hollis paints Old Man's Mountain?

Short Essay Questions

1. What special gift does the Old Man give to Hollis one night?

2. Why does Hollis tell Josie that they are going on an adventure to the Regans' Summer house?

3. How is Hollis' joy at earning four dollars squelched when she sees the Mustard Woman at Josie's house?

4. How does Hollis' concern for the fighting between the Old Man and Steven foreshadow what Hollis will feel about it later in the book?

5. What does the Old Man tell Hollis in the Fifth Picture, The Old Man, that no one has ever said to her before about herself or her art?

6. What event is depicted in Hollis' Sixth Picture, Driving the Truck?

7. What does Hollis' "W" picture represent and what role does it play in Hollis' life?

8. What does Hollis' desire to go back to the day she met Steven and the Old Man mean/

9. How does Josie help boost Hollis' self esteem as she gives her a hat to wear to the movies?

10. How is Hollis preoccupied with the Regans even while she is living with Josie?

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