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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bluish tell the girls she can do?
(a) Be outside.
(b) Teach her puppy to participate.
(c) Program a computer.
(d) Eat any food she wants.

2. Who does the writing for the group?
(a) Tuli.
(b) Paula.
(c) Bluish.
(d) Dreenie.

3. What worries one boy about Bluish's disease?
(a) If very many children get it.
(b) If it can come back.
(c) If he can catch it.
(d) If only Jewish kids get it because he's Jewish..

4. Why does Dreenie sometimes hang back and let Bluish guide her own wheelchair?
(a) Sometimes the chair moves too fast for Dreenie.
(b) Bluish has fun popping wheelies.
(c) Dreenie doesn't know how to turn a corner.
(d) So Bluish can feel in control.

5. What is in the vivarium that the class visits?
(a) Birds.
(b) Rodents.
(c) Butterflies.
(d) Snakes.

6. About what does Dreenie worry unnecessarily?
(a) That Willie will get tired.
(b) That her mother will single her out.
(c) That Bluish will have tire out before the end of the trip.
(d) That Bluish will not be able to climb the steps on the field trip.

7. How long will the class's research project be?
(a) A month.
(b) One week.
(c) Three days.
(d) For the entire semester.

8. Who showed Paula and Dreenie around Broadway?
(a) Bluish.
(b) Tuli.
(c) Willie.
(d) Suzie.

9. One does Dreenie think of the tree?
(a) It is lopsided.
(b) It is too heavily decorated.
(c) It is pretty.
(d) It does not look like a real tree.

10. What is the symbolic meaning of the decoration Bluish brings?
(a) It represents the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah.
(b) It represents that Bluish thinks an angel is watching over her.
(c) It represents the puppy she brings to class.
(d) It represents her father's endearment to her--Princess.

11. What is the cure rate for Bluish's disease?
(a) 40 percent.
(b) 25 percent.
(c) Almost none.
(d) 80-90 percent.

12. Why is Rita annoyed with Dreenie and Bluish's other friends?
(a) For not addressing Bluish's parents properly.
(b) For rejecting Bluish for many months.
(c) She is not annoyed with them.
(d) For calling Natalie the nickname Bluish.

13. What does Bluish say about her nickname to Rita?
(a) Nothing.
(b) That she hated it at first, but then liked it.
(c) That she has always loved the nickname.
(d) That it is about the color of her skin.

14. What is each group's initial task to be?
(a) Outline their agenda.
(b) Decide on a leader.
(c) Write up an agreement of who does what task.
(d) Get their parents to help.

15. Why is Natalie unsure about accepting the invitation?
(a) She is worried about meeting Dreenie's parents.
(b) Her dad has to drive her in a specially-equipped van.
(c) She doesn't want to be stared at by kids she does not know.
(d) There will be so many people and germs there.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Rita that brings the girls cookies?

2. What was the name of the Irish bar that Paula, Dreenie and others went inside?

3. Who is Lucky?

4. What does Dreenie do when she is the first one to class at the opening of chapter 4?

5. With what does Willie want to play?

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