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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. Where does Mrs. Smeath ask Elaine to go with her family?
(a) Church.
(b) A party.
(c) A play.
(d) A picnic.

2. What does Elaine's mother tell her to do?
(a) Ignore the other girls.
(b) Stand up for herself.
(c) Pretend everything is okay.
(d) Avoid the other girls.

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

4. What do the girls put over Elaine?
(a) Palm leaves.
(b) Boards.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Rocks.

5. What relationship does Stephen have to the narrator?
(a) Father.
(b) Son.
(c) Uncle.
(d) Brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the new friend that Elaine makes?

2. What did Elaine think of Jon's dirty mattress when they were first dating?

3. How old is the narrator in the book's first flashback?

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

5. What does Elaine have to drink while she's at the store?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Elaine remember about her birthday after the incident with the hole?

2. What does Carol tell all the other children about Elaine?

3. Describe Elaine's experience when the girls leave her in the hole.

4. How does Elaine react whenever someone asks her for money?

5. How does Elaine feel toward her ex-husband when she meets him again?

6. How does Elaine feel when she visits the new school?

7. How does Elaine feel when she attributes her feelings to Cordelia, instead of to herself?

8. Why doesn't Charna want Elaine to be in the gallery when people begin arriving for the art retrospective?

9. What was Elaine's reaction to statues of the Virgin Mary she saw in churches?

10. What makes Elaine feel out of place when she first goes to the art exhibit?

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