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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. Who is Dreenie?
(a) The character whose real name is Nancy.
(b) The character whose nickname is Bluish.
(c) The narrator of the journal entries.
(d) The narrator of the adult viewpoint.

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

3. What happens one day when Natalie parks her wheelchair?
(a) She rolls over the puppy's tail.
(b) The kids can barely get around her.
(c) She falls out of the chair.
(d) She can't get one wheel to turn.

4. What causes Tuli to fall?
(a) The sidewalk is icy.
(b) She is busy trying to avoid Dreenie and Tuli.
(c) She runs into a boy coming out of the store.
(d) She trips over a raised crack in the sidewalk.

5. What is the likely reason for Natalie's baldness?
(a) A need to stand out even more.
(b) There is no logical explanation for the baldness.
(c) Chemotherapy.
(d) A result of surgery for a brain tumor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dreenie think of Natalie's baldness?

2. What does Dreenie tell Tuli to do?

3. Who tries to steal Bluish's hat?

4. Why does Natalie think that about the kids?

5. Who is Willie?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is Dreenie and her sister at the beginning of Chapter 1 and what does the place look like?

2. Who does Dreenie describe in her journal and what is her description of that person? What nickname do the children give her and why?

3. Why does Dreenie have an argument with her sister as they are walking?

4. What gets Bluish upset in class according to Dreenie's journal, and how does Bluish respond? Who has to take care of her response?

5. What does Dreenie tell her mother when her mother coaxes her to talk?

6. What is Tuli like when Dreenie and Willie meet her on the street, why might she be like that and what is one of her favorite phrases?

7. What are Dreenie's thoughts about Bluish's appearance, what does she want to do about Bluish's puppy and what does she think about the puppy coming to school?

8. What does Dreenie notice about Bluish's attendance in school?

9. What does Bluish do at school and what does she ask Dreenie? How does Dreenie mistake her question?

10. What does Dreenie think she is and how does she feel about her sister's status with others? Where do they go to school?

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