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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 social function does Nana suggest that Hattie attend?
(a) The Debutante Ball.
(b) The Junior League Summer Dance.
(c) The Summer Cotillion.
(d) Etiquette Summer School.

2. Adam tells Hattie that she is the type of person who can _______________________.
(a) see the stars in people's eyes.
(b) fly to the moon one day.
(c) lift the corner of the universe.
(d) hang the moon and the stars.

3. Why do Nana and Papa bring Adam to the boardinghouse on Sunday morning?
(a) Adam can't keep still in church.
(b) Adam wants to go to church with Hattie.
(c) Adam wants to play with Hattie.
(d) Adam doesn't want to go to church.

4. How old is Adam?
(a) 27.
(b) 30.
(c) 21.
(d) 17.

5. Hattie says that Adam talks so fast that _______________________.
(a) she is dizzy.
(b) she becomes breathless.
(c) he stutters.
(d) she can't understand him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Miss Hagerty not come downstairs for breakfast?

2. Why does Papa chastise Adam during dessert?

3. Hattie feels like a __________________ to Adam.

4. What drink does Adam always get?

5. Who is the cook for the boardinghouse?

Short Essay Questions

1. What surprises Hattie about Adam's first visit to their home for a while?

2. What grandmotherly figures does Hattie have in her life?

3. What is Hattie Owen doing as the story begins?

4. In what ways does Hattie feel more like Adam's babysitter than his niece?

5. Why does Nana think that her daughter "married beneath her"?

6. What does Adam mean when he says that Hattie is the kind of person who can "lift the corner of the universe"?

7. Who is Betsy McGruder, and why does Hattie go to her house on this morning?

8. Why does Hattie decide not to ask Nana to take her to the movies?

9. Who is Adam and how does Hattie find out about him?

10. Hattie refuses to go with Betsy's family on their Maine vacations--what is more enjoyable for her during the Summers?

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