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

2. What does Becca do at the nursing home as soon as she arrives in Chapter 2?
(a) Speaks with the nurse.
(b) Greets many of the residents.
(c) Goes to the bathroom.
(d) Washes her hands.

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

4. In Gemma's fairy tale story, what does the queen name the baby?
(a) Rebecca.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Ella.
(d) Briar Rose.

5. In Gemma's story, at what age will the heroine be when the curse comes to pass?
(a) Eighteen.
(b) Seventeen.
(c) Thirteen.
(d) Fifteen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mike?

2. Who is Stan?

3. What has Sylvia always thought was the origin of Gemma's use of the name Dawn?

4. What does Becca eat with Stan in Chapter 9?

5. What is being made into a museum as of Chapter 8?

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. After Gemma's funeral, what do Becca's parents reveal was found among Gemma's things?

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

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

5. What are the documents that Becca falls asleep going over in Chapter 6?

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

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

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

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

10. How does Becca explain having never seen Gemma's carved box before in Chapter 8?

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