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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Dreenie guide Tuli and Willie?
(a) To Dreenie's home.
(b) To the drug store fountain.
(c) To the candy store.
(d) To the subway.

2. Why is Dreenie worried about the grandmother?
(a) The grandmother is bed bound.
(b) Tuli cooks for both of them.
(c) The grandmother is in the hospital.
(d) Willie cooks for both of them.

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

4. Why does Dreenie's mother think Natalie's health may be improving?
(a) Because she can sometimes walk.
(b) Because she is attending school.
(c) Because she is able to talk.
(d) Because she is no longer on a ventilator.

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

6. How is Tuli acting?
(a) Sad.
(b) Gregarious.
(c) Unhappy.
(d) Moody.

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

8. About what do Dreenie and Willie argue?
(a) Willie being boastful.
(b) Who gets to hold Natalie's puppy.
(c) Who gets to spend the weekend with their father.
(d) Who gets to ride in the front seat of their mom's car.

9. Why does Dreenie hang around with Tuli?
(a) Willie likes Tuli.
(b) Dreenie's mother makes her do so.
(c) Dreenie feels sorry for Tuli.
(d) Dreenie is new to the school and Tuli is the only friend she has so far.

10. For what does Dreenie long?
(a) Their mother to get home with the pizza.
(b) Their dad to come back.
(c) Having her own room.
(d) Their grandmother to get well.

11. What does Dreenie say the act of writing in her journal is not about?
(a) A way of avoiding talking to other kids.
(b) A grade.
(c) Practicing her penmanship.
(d) A means of sharing with her friends.

12. How does Tuli speak?
(a) Just normally.
(b) Loudly.
(c) She hardly says anything.
(d) In a whisper.

13. What does Dreenie wonder about Tuli?
(a) If she is speaking to her younger sister yet.
(b) If Tuli's father is going to pick up Tuli that evening.
(c) Why she acts out.
(d) If Tuli's mother is back from San Francisco.

14. What is Natalie allowed to bring to school?
(a) A puppy.
(b) An electric throw.
(c) A heart monitor.
(d) A goldfish.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Tuli more confident than other kids in he grade?

2. Why does Natalie think that about the kids?

3. What word does Willie define for Dreenie?

4. In what grade is Willie?

5. Why does Dreenie use the clothes dryer?

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