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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What item, belonging to one of her students, causes Codi to give an emotional lecture about the environment in her class?
(a) A vinyl backpack.
(b) A styrofoam drinking cup.
(c) A disposable mechanical pencil.
(d) Stonewashed jeans.

2. Who tells Codi the myth of the badger?
(a) Dosa Althea.
(b) Uda.
(c) Loyd.
(d) Carlo.

3. Who has been kidnapped?
(a) Loyd.
(b) Carlo.
(c) Hallie.
(d) Homer.

4. Who is in charge of Christmas dinner?
(a) Hallie.
(b) Codi.
(c) Loyd.
(d) Loyd's mother.

5. According to Homer, people think it is the heart that suffers from emotional trauma, but it is really what organ?
(a) The brain.
(b) The stomach.
(c) The liver.
(d) The pancreas.

6. Why does Loyd give up cockfighting?
(a) Because of his newfound religious beliefs.
(b) Because some protesters made an impact on him.
(c) Because he became attached to a bird that later died.
(d) Because of what Codi says about it.

7. What does Codi do with the item she brought to Homer's house?
(a) She gives it to her father for safekeeping.
(b) She burns it in the fireplace.
(c) She buries it in the backyard.
(d) She places it on her father's mantle.

8. What do the women of the Stitch and Bitch Club make to raise money for their campaign against the mining company?
(a) Peacock pisatas.
(b) Terraria with water and wildlife from the river.
(c) Scale models of the fruit trees in the orchard.
(d) Jams and jellies from the orchard trees.

9. Hallie's letters tell of illness and death in Nicaragua caused by what?
(a) Plague.
(b) War.
(c) Famine.
(d) Pollution.

10. Where has the kidnapped person been taken?
(a) Mexico.
(b) Honduras.
(c) Illinois.
(d) Nicaragua.

11. Who gave Codi something similar to what she is wearing in Chapter 15?
(a) Viola.
(b) Her father.
(c) Uda.
(d) Her mother.

12. Why does Codi go to Tucson in Chapter 24?
(a) To sign papers.
(b) To prepare her father's funeral.
(c) To get away from painful memories in Grace.
(d) To tell Carlo that she is pregnant.

13. Who receives a phone call at the beginning of Chapter 20?
(a) Homer.
(b) Hallie.
(c) Codi.
(d) Loyd.

14. Whose grave is Codi decorating in Chapter 28?
(a) Her baby's.
(b) Loyd's.
(c) Homer's.
(d) Hallie's.

15. What is Homer having trouble with, beginning in Chapter 15?
(a) Remembering his address and phone number.
(b) Recognizing his relatives.
(c) Remembering to take his medication.
(d) Distinguishing past from present.

Short Answer Questions

1. Codi reveals to her father in Chapter 27 that she has told whom about the baby?

2. What do the women do to obtain publicity for Hallie's rescue?

3. Whom does Codi write unmailed letters to?

4. With whom does Codi argue about leaving Grace at the end of the year?

5. What language is the caller speaking?

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