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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. In Gemma's fairy tale story, what color is the baby's hair?
(a) Red.
(b) Brown.
(c) Blonde.
(d) Black.

2. What point does Becca specifically remember about Gemma's story in Chapter 6?
(a) That the curse would end during the harvest moon.
(b) That the curse will only affect women.
(c) That the curse would affect anyone that bore her name.
(d) That the curse is unbreakable.

3. At what point in her story does Gemma shudder in Chapter 3?
(a) When she speaks of the terrible storm.
(b) When she speaks of the insect invasion.
(c) When she speaks of the bad smell.
(d) When she speaks of the curse.

4. What does Gemma's box, found by the family, contain?
(a) Photos, newspaper clippings and some documents.
(b) Some money and the deed to her summer cottage.
(c) Jewelry.
(d) A lock of hair and some love letters.

5. What information does Arnie provide Becca in Chapter 8?
(a) Information about the trust fund in place for WWII refugees.
(b) Information about the National Archives and the War Relocation Authority.
(c) Information about the Oswego museum.
(d) Information about the history of Oswego.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Arnie?

2. What does the building where Becca works overlook?

3. What does Stan urge Becca to do in regards to Gemma's past in Chapter 8?

4. Who is Eve?

5. Who is the youngest of Gemma's granddaughters?

Short Essay Questions

1. When she investigates her grandmother's newspaper clippings, what does Becca learn from Arnie at the Palladium Times in Oswego?

2. What does Becca do in Chapter 2, which he sisters urge her not to?

3. In Chapter 4, what do we learn about Gemma's past?

4. What name does Becca have for her car in Chapter 2? Why has she named her car?

5. What do Sylvia and Shana make fun of Becca for in Chapter 2?

6. What does Becca admit to her father is the real reason she is going to work in Chapter 8?

7. After Sylvia and Shana have left in Chapter 2, what does Gemma tell Becca, and make Becca promise to do?

8. In Chapter 3, who does Gemma say was not invited to the King's party?

9. In Chapter 6, why does Becca suppose Gemma was so caught up with the part of her story which said the curse would affect Briar Rose's whole family?

10. Besides the document with an unknown name on it, what is inside the carved box which had belonged to Gemma?

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