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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 did Gypsy find of her father's on the day that her mother married Porter?
(a) His watch.
(b) A button from his volunteer fireman uniforms.
(c) His rare coin collection.
(d) Cuff links that fell out of his suit pocket.

2. What does the person in #91 say that he recalls Amos doing with Gypsy when she was younger?
(a) Playing in the park.
(b) Taking walks in town.
(c) Going to the carnival.
(d) Singing to her.

3. What was Amos' nickname for Gypsy?
(a) Princess.
(b) Chocolate Gyp.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Gypsy Girl.

4. In addition to anger at her father for killing himself, Gypsy also cut her hair ______________________.
(a) as a sign of her love for her father.
(b) in defiance of her mother's wishes.
(c) because she felt invisible underneath it.
(d) short hair is in style now.

5. What does Gypsy tell Woodrow they will do when she is better?
(a) Fix up the tree house.
(b) Go the traveling carnival.
(c) Make Indian moccasins.
(d) Have a wienie roast by the river.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the topic of Woodrow's English assignment in Chapter 22?

2. Woodrow tells a story about his ___________________ who was buried alive.

3. What does Love tell Gypsy about her father?

4. What does Gypsy do as Woodrow beats up Buzz in the classroom?

5. How does Woodrow think that his mother will contact him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Gypsy's reaction to the trick he played on Mrs. Cooper different from how the adults react to it?

2. What do Gypsy's hair and her mirror symbolize for her?

3. Describe the argument Woodrow and Gypsy have about pretty people getting away with more.

4. Explain how Gypsy's new haircut lets a new Gypsy emerge.

5. Explain how Amos and Love have been good to Blind Benny.

6. Explain how Woodrow will soon have a chance to show his outer beauty just as Gypsy is getting the chance to exhibit her internal beauty.

7. What explanation does Woodrow give for what has happened to Belle?

8. Explain what Benny means when he says he used to be a sin eater.

9. How does Gypsy's conversation with Grandpa Ball about beauty give Gypsy a different perspective on which of her parents was more obsessed with it?

10. What does Gypsy do at home after her memory of finding her father after he had committed suicide?

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