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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part of the narrator's body is bloodied?
(a) Her knee.
(b) Her fingers.
(c) Her nose.
(d) Her wrists.

2. Who do the little girls from Elaine's memories remind her of?
(a) Joan of Arc.
(b) Frankenstein's monster.
(c) Marie Antoinette.
(d) Lady Macbeth.

3. What is strange about the girls' seating arrangements at the parade?
(a) The girls stand on their seats.
(b) All of the girls sit low, where they can't see.
(c) All of the girls sit around Elain so Elain can't see.
(d) None of the girls sits near Elaine.

4. Why does Elaine lie about the number of Valentines she got?
(a) She got less than her friends.
(b) She got none.
(c) She got more than her friends.
(d) She got only one, from her brother.

5. What do the two women Elaine hears talking about her at the Smeath house call her?
(a) A wildcat.
(b) A heathen.
(c) a poor beggar.
(d) An urchin.

6. Why does Elaine make mistakes on her Sunday School tests?
(a) Because Cordelia is blackmailing her.
(b) Because she doesn't study.
(c) Because she gets nervous when taking tests.
(d) So the girls won't call her a goody-goody.

7. Who does Elaine pray to instead of God?
(a) The baby Jesus.
(b) The Holy Ghost.
(c) Saint Bernadette.
(d) The Virgin Mary.

8. Does the narrator think she'd recognize Cordelia today?
(a) Yes, but she thinks it would take a few moments.
(b) No, she doesn't think either would recognize the other.
(c) Yes, she thinks she would recognize Cordelia right away.
(d) No, but she thinks Cordelia would recognize her right away.

9. In the present time, where does the narrator look as she walks down the street?
(a) At the women's clothes and hair.
(b) At the sidewalk.
(c) Into all the shop windows.
(d) Up at the sky.

10. What is the name of the new friend that Elaine makes?
(a) Jill.
(b) Jenny.
(c) Jane.
(d) Jackie.

11. What does Elaine keep in her pocket for protection?
(a) A wilted daisy.
(b) A cat's eye marble.
(c) A polished stone.
(d) A fly trapped in amber.

12. Why did Elaine paint artworks of her mother after she died?
(a) To change her memory.
(b) To understand her death.
(c) To forget her grief.
(d) To keep her timeless.

13. Where do Elaine and her friends watch the Christmas parade from?
(a) Grace's mother's car.
(b) The top of a double-decker bus.
(c) The roof of the school.
(d) The building where her father works.

14. What does Cordelia want to punish Elaine for, after the incident with the cold water?
(a) Telling on the girls.
(b) Telling lies about religion.
(c) Not forgiving them.
(d) Being sick and weakly.

15. What does Elaine notice about the boys and girls at Tortonto's shopping centers?
(a) They're trying to look grown up.
(b) They look shabby and poor.
(c) They look like each other.
(d) They're trying to look like children.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the girls playing when they put Elaine into the hole?

2. What adjective best describes the narrator and Cordelia on the streetcar?

3. What does Elaine stop to eat downtown at the beginning of Chapter 7?

4. How did Elaine feel about coming to her art retrospective?

5. Does Elaine like the gallery where her art is exhibited?

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