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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. Who is Adam?
(a) Her brother's best friend.
(b) Julie's father.
(c) Julie's older brother.
(d) One of the boys in the group of children.

2. What is Uncle Haskell holding?
(a) A puppy.
(b) A bunch of daisies.
(c) A bag of golf clubs.
(d) The evening paper.

3. What is Laura and Bill's baby named?
(a) Laura.
(b) Julie.
(c) Billie.
(d) Christine.

4. What does Uncle Haskell tell Julie?
(a) That he and Aunt Cordelia want her to stay.
(b) Aggie has been saved future embarrassments and hard times through a merciful death.
(c) That people all go to heaven; there is no hell.
(d) That all religions lead to the same place.

5. What does Julie vow?
(a) That she will leave Aunt Cordelia's home as soon as she is old enough.
(b) To ask her aunt not to favor boys over girls.
(c) To apologize to Chris.
(d) To treat all fairly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aunt Cordelia do as Julie cleans the dishes?

2. What does Julie do with the pink note cards Alicia Allison sends her?

3. What is one of Aunt Cordelia's greatest challenges as a schoolteacher?

4. Of what does Bill assure Julie?

5. Who does Julie rebuff with hostility?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Julie learn about Jonathan from Laura?

2. How does Aunt Cordelia make her money and what else does she do?

3. What is announced a few weeks after the children discover Uncle Haskell's secret?

4. How does Uncle Haskell help Julie with her loneliness after Chris leaves?

5. What does Aunt Cordelia try to do for the Kilpin family and how does she feel when she returns home?

6. What happens when Julie visits Laura and Bill and what does Bill tell her?

7. What news arrives towards the end of the summer?

8. What challenges Aunt Cordelia most about teaching and what does she encourage Julie and the other girls to do? How do they feel about it?

9. Who does Julie meet as the novel opens and why hasn't she seen them for awhile?

10. What does Jonathan say about Julie and how does she feel about it?

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