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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What unnerves Helen when she sees her reflection?
(a) Her hair is the wrong color.
(b) She sees her old reflection.
(c) She doesn't look like herself.
(d) She isn't used to looking so young.

2. Why is Cathy upset during family game night?
(a) She doesn't understand the game.
(b) She thinks Dan is cheating at the game.
(c) She lost.
(d) Dan leaves early.

3. What does a girl ask Helen?
(a) What color she dyes her hair.
(b) When she is coming to the meeting.
(c) What she was doing backstage.
(d) If she's going out with Billy.

4. What has Cathy been doing when she picks Helen up from school?
(a) Visiting a psychologist.
(b) Crying.
(c) Talking with the principal.
(d) Shopping.

5. What does school food taste like to Helen?
(a) Cardboard.
(b) Delicious.
(c) Different from what she remembers.
(d) Home.

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

7. What did Billy's father do to Billy's mother?
(a) He left her.
(b) He tried to save her in a car accident.
(c) He left her for another woman.
(d) He hit her repetitively with a book end.

8. Where does Helen go after breakfast?
(a) To James' house.
(b) Outside.
(c) To her room.
(d) The Prayer Corner.

9. What did Billy's father do to Billy?
(a) He tried to kidnap Billy.
(b) He told the boy he hates his family.
(c) He threw the boy out the window.
(d) He ignored the boy.

10. What does James see in a tree?
(a) A hat.
(b) A bird.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A nest.

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

12. What has the policeman from the church found?
(a) Billy's criminal record.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A scarf Helen left backstage.
(d) He discovered that Helen called Mr. Brown from her home.

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

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

15. What has Helen written?
(a) An essay on falling in love.
(b) A piece called "A Letter From a Muse to Her Poet."
(c) Her original poem entitled "Ode to my Poet."
(d) A homework tutorial.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Helen nervous as she sets the table?

2. What does Jenny's mom think of James?

3. What does Helen like about the study?

4. What does Jenny do at the library?

5. What does Helen smell as she prays for James?

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