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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. What did Roosevelt create in 1944 in Oswego?
(a) A war refugee shelter.
(b) A holiday honoring the survivors of the Holocaust.
(c) A library honoring the soldiers fighting in WWII.
(d) A bomb shelter.

2. Where is Oswego?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) New York.
(c) Rhode Island.
(d) Maine.

3. How long does the curse in Gemma's story put everyone to sleep for?
(a) One year.
(b) Forever.
(c) One hundred years.
(d) One thousand years.

4. What has Eve always thought to be Gemma's real name?
(a) Gabrielle.
(b) Genevieve.
(c) Guinevere.
(d) Georgina.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Becca do at the nursing home as soon as she arrives in Chapter 2?

2. What is the name of the newspaper where Becca works?

3. What is on top of Gemma's box of mementos?

4. According to Gemma, at what point will little Becca not want to hear her fairy tale story any longer?

5. What does the Polish word 'Ksiezniczka' mean in English?

Short Essay Questions

1. As she continues the story in Chapter 6, how long does Gemma say the cursed people in the story slept for?

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

3. What does Sylvia press Gemma for a definition for in Chapter 9?

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

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

6. 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?

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

8. What does Gemma tell her granddaughters about the baby born to the King and Queen in the story?

9. What are Shana and Sylvia begging their grandmother for at the beginning of the novel?

10. While going through Gemma's box of mementos in Chapter 6, what does Becca realize about them?

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