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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. Jeff finds the girl's ____________ appealing and he likes the way she is helpless to the music.
(a) Determination
(b) Intelligence
(c) Beauty
(d) Voice

2. Melody says that she merely wants a ______________ from Jeff before she leaves on a trip.
(a) Kiss
(b) Goodbye
(c) Hug
(d) Promise

3. What does Jeff decide to invite Brother Thomas to do in order to make him feel better?
(a) Go crabbing
(b) Invite him to live with them
(c) Go to a concert
(d) Play a song for him

4. Jeff realizes that Dicey is as private and solitary in her grief as _____________.
(a) He is
(b) Melody
(c) The Professor
(d) Brother Thomas

5. When the Professor goes to Baltimore, who does he stay with on these nights?
(a) Melody
(b) Brother Thomas
(c) Gambo
(d) Maxine

Short Answer Questions

1. Who called the Professor and told him about Jeff's performance in school, though Jeff had tried to hide it?

2. Who is the girl that Jeff meets when he is playing his guitar, though she leaves abruptly the first time?

3. ____________ tells Jeff that Dicey and her siblings traveled alone to their home when their mother was put into a mental hospital.

4. Who is waiting for Jeff when he returns to the Baltimore airport this time?

5. Who does Jeff write about for the essay in his English class, though his teacher mocks him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jeff begin to realize the principal at his school and Melody did when he receives all As?

2. What does Jeff realize about the Professor's expectations of him at school?

3. Why do Brother Thomas and the Professor show up at the amusement park to see Jeff?

4. Why does Sammy think that if his sister turned out to be like their mom it wouldn't be a bad thing?

5. What had Melody told Jeff she would have done if he was a girl instead of a boy?

6. What does Melody believe about the reason why Jeff decided to stay with his father instead of with her?

7. Who is waiting for Jeff when he returns from his visit with Melody?

8. What does Jeff realize about Dicey when Dicey's mother dies?

9. What does Wilhemina tell Jeff about the Tillerman family and how they arrived at their current home?

10. Why is the Professor worried when Gambo's lawyer is coming to visit their house?

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