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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. According to what the family knows in Chapter 4, when did Gemma come to America?
(a) In the early 1950's.
(b) As a child in the 1920's.
(c) During WWII.
(d) Prior to the outbreak of WWII.

2. What does Becca eat with Stan in Chapter 9?
(a) Sandwiches.
(b) Yogurt.
(c) Ice cream.
(d) French fries.

3. 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.

4. What does the Polish word 'Ksiezniczka' mean in English?
(a) Princess.
(b) Goddess.
(c) Duchess.
(d) Queen.

5. Who is Arnie?
(a) An editor at the Oswego newspaper.
(b) A janitor at the Oswego newspaper.
(c) A reporter at the Oswego newspaper.
(d) An intern at the Oswego newspaper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Howie's profession?

2. What fairy tale does Becca mean when she asks to be told "Seepin Boot"?

3. Who is Dr. Berlin?

4. During Gemma's wake, what is done to the mirrors in the house?

5. What does Becca note about Gemma's family in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Berlins debate about Gemma's real name in Chapter 4?

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

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

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

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

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

7. In Chapter 7, what does Gemma tell Becca she will probably lose interest in after she starts school?

8. What does Becca's father remind her of when she says she is going to work in Chapter 8?

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

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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