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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. In Chapter 9, where is Avery going to a ribbon-cutting ceremony with her parents?
(a) Columbia.
(b) Greenville.
(c) Spartanburg.
(d) Charleston.

2. In Chapter 6, when Miss Tann puts Rill and her siblings in the car, how many other children are on the floorboards?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

3. In Chapter 1, who does May think that Avery might be?
(a) Fern.
(b) Nancy.
(c) Judy.
(d) Betty.

4. In Chapter 12, how long did it take Rill to learn that the kids at Miss Tanns's are Wards of the Tennessee Children's Home Society?
(a) 2 weeks.
(b) 3 days.
(c) 4 weeks.
(d) 8 days.

5. How old is Wells Stafford in Chapter 1?
(a) 53.
(b) 57.
(c) 61.
(d) 64.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 4, how old was Lark?

2. Where was Avery working before she came home to help her mother deal with her father's cancer?

3. What is Avery's mother's nickname?

4. Where did Avery's parents meet?

5. What was the name of Grandma Judy's husband?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the Prelude, how is the woman described who had a still birth?

2. In Chapter 3, why does the nursing home contact Leslie, Wells Stafford's press secretary?

3. In Chapter 12, what happened when a man came to visit his little boy?

4. What happens when Avery tries to intimidate Trent into giving her the envelope at the end of Chapter 11?

5. Who was the boy with Zede in Chapter 6, and what was he like?

6. At the end of Chapter 8, what did a woman tell Rill and the children to do?

7. In Chapter 13, what does Trent tell Avery that his grandfather might have been doing for her grandmother?

8. In Chapter 2, what did the midwife tell Rill to tell her father?

9. In Chapter 9, why has Honeybee asked the Monday Girls to not visit Grandma Judy?

10. Who does Avery have to pick up in Chapter 9, and why?

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