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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 8, what type of bird flew into the front-door glass?
(a) Blue Jay.
(b) Dove.
(c) Robin.
(d) Redbird.

2. In Chapter 2, what does May remember was her mother's name?
(a) Maggie.
(b) Sandy.
(c) Lindy.
(d) Queenie.

3. In Chapter 4, what did a midwife take when Briny did not pay her cash money?
(a) Picture.
(b) Hat.
(c) Coat.
(d) Dress.

4. In Chapter 10, how many boys are playing cards in the bushes?
(a) 4 or 5.
(b) 7.
(c) 3 or 4.
(d) 6.

5. What is the name of the cottage that Grandma Judy owns?
(a) Stafford.
(b) Rivers.
(c) Myers.
(d) Edisto.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Chapter 1 take place?

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

3. Where did Avery's parents meet?

4. What last name are Rill and the other children given in Chapter 8?

5. In Chapter 8, what color were Miss Tann's eyes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. In Chapter 1, who is Avery and what is background and career?

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

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

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

10. In Chapter 2, why was Rill worried?

(see the answer keys)

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