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

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

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

4. What instrument did Zippy want to play in the band?
(a) The drums.
(b) French horn.
(c) Flute.
(d) Trumpet.

5. How did Shorty Gard decorate their house at Christmas?
(a) With a string of white lights along the fence.
(b) With a life-sized Santa and Mrs. Clause.
(c) With colored bulbs.
(d) With lighted deer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Zippy's bedroom?

2. What one concession did Zippy want on her new bicycle that her father built for her?

3. Why did Dan start playing basketball?

4. What did Zippy's mom make for Jenny in ceramics class?

5. What did Zippy record things on?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Zippy feel everything in her life changed when Dana moved to town?

2. What happened to Zippy's grandmother's house? How was it moved? How does the fact that it is on a graveyard affect the story and image of Zippy's grandmother?

3. What instrument did Zippy what to play and why was it not accepted by the music teacher?

4. What was the Danny's most prominent characteristic according to Zippy?

5. What was Zippy's view of Jesus? How did she feel about him? What did she think of the portrait that hung in her house?

6. Why did Robert Frost's poem mean so much to Zippy?

7. What did Zippy mean when her mother rode off on her bike and Zippy thought, "It won't be long now."

8. Why did Zippy's mom believe that Daniel's ESP was the "blocker" type.

9. How did Zippy confuse the Great Depression with the depression her mother suffered from?

10. Describe the Jarvis's Christmas tree? What does it indicate about their family?

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