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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. At the end of Chapter 10, what color is the hair of the boy who tells Rill not to let Riggs get her off by herself?
(a) Red.
(b) Brown.
(c) Blonde.
(d) Black.

2. In Chapter 2, how old does May remember she was when she was on the deck of a shantyboat?
(a) 10.
(b) 12.
(c) 11.
(d) 13.

3. In Chapter 6, which of the children nearly escapes?
(a) Gabion.
(b) Fern.
(c) Rill.
(d) Camellia.

4. In Chapter 8, what color were Miss Tann's eyes?
(a) Green.
(b) Hazel.
(c) Blue.
(d) Gray.

5. In Chapter 12, what is the name of the man whose wife reads to Fern at the party?
(a) Victor.
(b) Wilson.
(c) Warren.
(d) Darren.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, what snack does an attendant bring Grandma Judy and Avery?

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

3. In Chapter 6, what injuries does Silas have?

4. In Chapter 2, what does May remember was her mother's name?

5. In the Prelude, what is the date?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter 10, where were Rill and her siblings sleeping and what was it like?

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

3. At the end of Chapter 12, who was interested in Fern?

4. In Chapter 4, who came with Briny to help get Queenie to the hospital?

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

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

7. In Chapter 5, what photo does Avery see in May Crandall's room, and why does the photograph interest her?

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

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

10. At the end of Chapter 10, what did Rill do when a big red-headed boy told her to come with him?

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