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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dreenie wish she had done differently?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Made Willie do her homework.
(c) Responded differently when Bluish invites her to her house.
(d) Told Tuli to go away when Dreenie first came to the school.

2. What does Dreenie's mother urge Dreenie to do about Bluish?
(a) Stay away from her.
(b) Treat her like any other kid in her class.
(c) Help her when she needs it.
(d) Pity her.

3. How does Natalie look to Dreenie all the time?
(a) Bored.
(b) Tired.
(c) Mean.
(d) Happy.

4. How does Tuli try to impress people?
(a) By speaking in Spanish.
(b) By writing beautiful cursive poems.
(c) By speaking in pig Latin.
(d) By adding large numbers in her head.

5. Upon what street are Dreenie and her sister walking?
(a) Greenwich Avenue.
(b) First Street.
(c) Amsterdam Avenue.
(d) Wall Street.

6. What does Dreenie think about Tuli staying for dinner?
(a) She is indifferent.
(b) She has not expressed an opinion.
(c) She would love her to.
(d) She doesn not want her to.

7. Why is Tuli more confident than other kids in he grade?
(a) She has lived in several places.
(b) She has lots of siblings.
(c) She is older than they.
(d) She believes in herself.

8. Why does Dreenie think Bluish's appearance is weird?
(a) Because of her almost-white hair.
(b) Because of her odd clothing.
(c) Because of her pale skin.
(d) Because she has an oxygen tube in her nose.

9. What is the combination of English and Spanish called?
(a) Spanglish.
(b) Pidgen Spanish.
(c) There is no name for it.
(d) Castillian Spanish.

10. What happens when Tuli gets home late?
(a) Her mother is late to work.
(b) Tuli's grandmother eats late.
(c) Her younger siblings are left alone.
(d) She gets whipped.

11. Why does Tuli accept Dreenie's invitation?
(a) Tuli's mother told her she had to.
(b) She does not see Dreenie, so does not know of the invitation.
(c) Tuli knows Natalie will be there with her puppy.
(d) Tuli loves to go to Dreenie's house.

12. What does Dreenie's mother think is possibly wrong with Natalie?
(a) Childhood leukemia.
(b) Heart problems.
(c) Cerebral palsy.
(d) A brain tumor.

13. Why is Bluish called that?
(a) She always wears blue fingernail polish.
(b) You can see her veins through her skin.
(c) Her middle name is Blue and she prefers that name.
(d) She always wears blue.

14. What explanation does Natalie give for where she parks her wheelchair?
(a) The wheelchair won't fit through the classroom door.
(b) The battery is dead.
(c) The puppy won't move.
(d) She wants the kids to really look at her and see her as a person.

15. In what grade is Willie?
(a) Third.
(b) Tenth.
(c) First.
(d) Kindergarten.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tuli want to do that evening?

2. What does Dreenie finally get after giving Willie and Tuli food and drink?

3. Who tries to steal Bluish's hat?

4. How is Tuli acting?

5. Who meets Dreenie and Willie on the street?

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