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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. Where does Chapter 1 take place?
(a) Greer, South Carolina.
(b) Greenville, South Carolina.
(c) Aiken, South Carolina.
(d) Piedmont, South Carolina.

2. In Chapter 6, where are the children first taken?
(a) Warehouse.
(b) Factory.
(c) Police station.
(d) Courthouse.

3. In Chapter 2, when May remembers sitting on a shantyboat as a young girl, what child was her mother in labor with?
(a) 6 and 7.
(b) 7.
(c) 4 and 5.
(d) 4.

4. Where did Avery's parents meet?
(a) North Carolina house of representatives.
(b) College.
(c) Church.
(d) Magnolia Manor.

5. Toward the end of Chapter 7, what does Grandma Judy call Avery?
(a) Rill.
(b) Lark.
(c) Fern.
(d) Camellia.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 8, what was the next activity for Rill and the other children?

2. In Chapter 8, what grade did Rill remember that Lark would be in in the fall?

3. In Chapter 7, what time does Avery arrive at Magnolia Manor?

4. In Chapter 13, how many cottages is Trent away from Avery?

5. What color was the house that Rill and the other children were taken to in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Chapter 1, when Avery is at a nursing home with her father, what encounter does she have with a woman named May Crandall?

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

4. In Chapter 13, what did Avery's uncle Clifford say about going to Edisto Island?

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

6. In Chapter 11, what was Wells' condition?

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

8. In Chapter 2, why was Rill worried?

9. What happens to Rill and the other children in Chapter 6?

10. In Chapter 10, who did Rill see come into the room where she and her siblings were sleeping, and what did he do?

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