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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 is the name of the stray that hangs around the school?
(a) Hard Boy.
(b) Sucker.
(c) Loser.
(d) Doc.

2. What makes Miriam seem electric?
(a) Her blue eyes.
(b) Her silver hair.
(c) Her long tongue.
(d) Her pointed ears.

3. What does Eliza think makes spelling redundant?
(a) The theasaurus.
(b) The Internet.
(c) The dictionary.
(d) Television.

4. What does Eliza start sleeping with under her pillow?
(a) A baseball bar.
(b) A knife.
(c) A word list.
(d) A torah.

5. What is Eliza the official spotter of while her brother is driving?
(a) Designer clothes.
(b) Alien monsters.
(c) Attractive girls.
(d) Sport cars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Eliza's father's religious faith?

2. What kind of bird does Ms. Lowodski share her home with?

3. What is the ultimate consonant?

4. What is Eliza caught doing in Ms. Bergermeyer's class?

5. What does Saul chide Aaron for when Saul knocks on the study door?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Saul's study represent in context to the story?

2. What was Miriam's relationship like with her parents?

3. What does Eliza begin fantacizing about in this section?

4. How dd Miriam's parent's death affect her?

5. How did Miriam's parents die?

6. How does Saul react when he finds out Aaron has joined the Hare Krishnas?

7. How does Saul react to Eliza winning the first spelling bee contest?

8. How does Aaron meet Chali?

9. What does Miriam think Tikkun Olam means?

10. Describe Saul's relationship with his children at the beginning of this book?

(see the answer keys)

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