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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Rose got a piano, what did Zippy play on it?
(a) Silent Night.
(b) Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful.
(c) Hail, Hail, Rock and Roll.
(d) He Lives.

2. What did Zippy's father win gambling that belonged to Zippy and only Zippy?
(a) A juke box.
(b) A stuffed monkey.
(c) A popcorn machine.
(d) An organ,

3. What grade was Dan in when he started playing basketball?
(a) Sophomore in high school.
(b) College.
(c) Fourth grade.
(d) Kindergarten.

4. What one concession did Zippy want on her new bicycle that her father built for her?
(a) Brakes on the handle bars.
(b) Brightly colored streamers.
(c) A horn that played music.
(d) Playing cards in the spokes.

5. What did Zippy's mom make for Jenny in ceramics class?
(a) A ceramic box.
(b) A cookie jar.
(c) A bowl with a rabbit on top filled with chocolates.
(d) A rooster.

6. How did Zippy save Rose from the advances of the music teacher?
(a) She confronted him directly.
(b) She offered to stay and read a book during lessons.
(c) She brought her dog to the lessons with her.
(d) She told another teacher.

7. What did Dan play in the band?
(a) Drums.
(b) Flute.
(c) French horn.
(d) Piano.

8. What did Zippy record things on?
(a) A transistor radio.
(b) Her little blue tape recorder.
(c) A CD player.
(d) A film camera.

9. What special talent, according to Zippy, did her mother have?
(a) She could cook anything in a crock pot.
(b) She was a college graduate.
(c) She spoke French.
(d) She could make any food crunch.

10. What did Zippy listen to at night when she slept next Dan's room?
(a) Rock and roll music.
(b) The baseball games.
(c) Dinah Shore.
(d) Bing Crosby.

11. Who cleaned the house at Dana's house?
(a) A housekeeper.
(b) Dana's mother.
(c) Dana's older sister.
(d) Dana.

12. Where did Zippy's mother work at for a short time?
(a) The diner.
(b) The drugstore.
(c) The gas station.
(d) At a departments store in the next town over.

13. What did Zippy's dad have a copy of hanging on the wall in the house that was decoupaged?
(a) His driver's license.
(b) The Bill of Rights.
(c) The Pledge of Allegiance.
(d) The Constitution.

14. What game were Julie and Dana playing on the playground after school one day?
(a) Monkey bars.
(b) Hopscotch.
(c) H-O-R-S-E.
(d) Jump rope.

15. What did Zippy's dad tell her he got for Christmas during the Depression?
(a) Peppermint candy.
(b) A book.
(c) An orange.
(d) Shoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Zippy's mother ask her to take to her married brother's house for her brother's wife?

2. What kind of gun did Zippy's dad keep in a shoulder holster.

3. What happened when David Lee was wrestling and threw Zippy?

4. What did Melinda ask Zippy about their father when Zippy visited her while she was sewing?

5. What did Dana steal from Zippy?

(see the answer keys)

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