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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. Until the family recovers financially, the narrator will have to live with ________________ in an unnamed town.
(a) Aunt Suzie.
(b) Grandma Dowdel.
(c) Grandma Smith.
(d) Uncle Harold.

2. The _____________ family are notoriously bad people.
(a) Gage.
(b) Burdick.
(c) Butler.
(d) Fluke.

3. Who is the son of the principal?
(a) Matthew Thomas.
(b) Carl Aberdeen.
(c) Darrel Smiley.
(d) Augie Fluke.

4. Mary Alice figures Mildred will do what to her at school tomorrow?
(a) Beat her up.
(b) Tease her.
(c) Ignore her.
(d) Befriend her.

5. Mary Alice accompanies Grandma upstairs for what reason?
(a) To help her.
(b) To help Mrs. Abernathy clean her home.
(c) To see why Mrs. Abernathy is struggling.
(d) To help Mrs. Abernathy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is wrong with the principal's son?

2. Halloween is a _________ occasion in Grandma's town.

3. Grandma and Mary Alice take a load of the treats to the party, and who serves them?

4. The narrator tells the reader that her father lost his job and her brother Joey has joined __________.

5. Instead, what does Grandma do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Mary Alice move in with her grandmother? What does this reveal about the Great Depression?

2. What is a main reason for why Mary Alice does not want to move in with her grandmother? Why might she feel this way?

3. What warning does Grandma give Mary Alice before she leaves her at school? What does this warning foreshadow?

4. What does Grandma do when she arrives at the Pensingers' residence? Why does she do this?

5. How does Grandma defeat Mildred, the bully? What lesson does this teach Mary Alice?

6. How does Grandma handle these pranksters?

7. What happens to Bootsie one night? Why does this happen?

8. How does Mary Alice react to Mildred's plan for getting her dollar from Mary Alice? What does this reveal about her?

9. What is burgoo stew? How might this represent life during the Great Depression?

10. How does Mildred go about attempting to collect the dollar from Mary Alice? What does this reveal about Mildred?

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