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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What distracts Helen from learning?
(a) She keeps catching sight of her reflection.
(b) She keeps thinking about James.
(c) She can't wait for lunch.
(d) She is fascinated with the way the books are bound.

2. What is Diggs trying to tell James?
(a) To let Billy back.
(b) To leave him alone.
(c) He is angry at him.
(d) Everything is all right.

3. Who else is visiting Billy's father?
(a) His mother.
(b) Billy.
(c) Mitch.
(d) Helen.

4. How does Helen respond to Cathy?
(a) She reads a poem.
(b) She says she will always be there for her mother.
(c) She refuses to talk.
(d) She says she will date whomever she wants.

5. What does James ask Helen?
(a) He asks her if he can come over.
(b) He asks if she will go on a date with him.
(c) He asks her to stop calling him.
(d) He asks her to help him with his homework.

6. What does Helen hear after she whispers for God to come into her heart?
(a) Jenny pleading for her body back.
(b) She hears a baby crying.
(c) Jenny's mother yelling at her.
(d) God's voice answering her.

7. What does Helen write to James?
(a) A tutorial for math.
(b) A note asking him to meet her.
(c) A poem about her past.
(d) A love letter.

8. What does Helen question?
(a) What God can and cannot do.
(b) If there is life after death.
(c) Who Jenny really is.
(d) The reality of human existence.

9. What does James call to the dog in the road?
(a) Diggs!
(b) Go fetch!
(c) Here girl.
(d) Git!

10. What does Cathy find in Helen's bag?
(a) A photograph or Mr. Brown.
(b) Condoms.
(c) A book about prayer.
(d) Her camera.

11. What does Helen do when she gets back to the house?
(a) She takes a bath.
(b) She begins to study immediately.
(c) She goes to the prayer corner.
(d) She makes dinner.

12. What book of Jenny's does Helen enjoy reading?
(a) Her history book.
(b) Her journal.
(c) Her science book.
(d) Her book of poetry.

13. What does Billy find?
(a) Drugs.
(b) James' diary.
(c) The picture of Helen and James.
(d) His mother's wedding ring.

14. What happens to James after Helen gets on the bus?
(a) He becomes Billy.
(b) Mitch beats him up.
(c) He is arrested for rape.
(d) He passes out.

15. What does Helen take a picture of?
(a) The house James lives in.
(b) Her and James together.
(c) The dog.
(d) The car.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does James get along with Billy's friends?

2. What does Helen announce after smelling gardenias in the room?

3. What does Helen learn about after breakfast the next morning?

4. How does Helen feel after she has read her piece?

5. Why are her parents concerned about James?

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