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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. How does Grandma know the child is a Burdick?
(a) It has bright red hair.
(b) It does not stop screaming.
(c) It has one green eye and one blue eye.
(d) It is being held by Mildred.

2. Carleen is incensed that mousy Ina-Rae would get more attention on Valentine's Day than her. Later, what is revealed?
(a) Mary Alice actually crafted the valentines to make Carleen mad.
(b) Mary Alice and Ina-Rae had hidden all the cards meant for Carleen.
(c) Ina-Rae actually crafted the valentines to make Carleen mad.
(d) The entire class plotted against Carleen to make her jealous of Ina-Rae.

3. What is the DAR?
(a) Day of Armistice Resolve.
(b) Daughters for Allied Revolt.
(c) Daughters of the American Revolution.
(d) Daughters of Armed Revolution.

4. What are used to cover up the human scent in order to confuse these animals?
(a) The rubber waders and the corn.
(b) The rubber waders and walnut shells.
(c) The rubber waders and the pumpkins.
(d) The rubber waders and the pecans.

5. Mary Alice has managed to shed the "____________" reputation.
(a) Poor girl.
(b) Dumb girl.
(c) Mean girl.
(d) Rich girl.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Grandma agree to help Mrs. Weidenbach?

2. What are Mary Alice and Grandma helping each other do when a man with a strange accent comes calling in April?

3. Mrs. Weidenbach has come to Grandma because of what?

4. One day in the cold of _____________, Mrs. Weidenbach knocks at the door.

5. Valentine's Day is coming. Around this time, Mary Alice has been secretly doing what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Ina-Rae and Mary Alice get back at Carleen? Why do they do it in this way?

2. Who is the strange man who comes calling? Why?

3. Why is this man in town? What does Grandma think of this?

4. How does Mary Alice finally take a chance and ask Royce over to visit? How does Grandma feel about this? Why?

5. How is Mary Alice's date interrupted? How is this foreshadowed?

6. How do the townspeople treat Arnold after this shocking event? Why?

7. How is Carleen Lovejoy like Mildred Burdick?

8. What does Grandma do to pay the bills and survive during the Great Depression? How is this foreshadowed?

9. How do the girls react when a new boy enrolls in school? How does Mary Alice act? Why might she act this way?

10. How does Mrs. Weidenbach act when Grandma agrees to bake the tarts, if the meeting is held at Grandma's home? Why does she react this way?

(see the answer keys)

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