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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Carmen treat Birdie when they speak on the phone?
(a) She accuses Birdie of lying.
(b) She is friendly.
(c) She is rude and makes cutting remarks about Deck.
(d) She is stiff and formal.

2. What is the name of Birdie and Cole's secret language?
(a) Elopee.
(b) Sahara.
(c) Africana.
(d) Elemeno.

3. How does Sandy change physically once she goes "on the run"?
(a) Her face appears to sag and age quickly.
(b) She allows her tan to fade.
(c) She gains weight and must wear sweatpants.
(d) She loses weight and becomes thin.

4. What does Cole's Nana teach her to appreciate when she is three?
(a) Sweetened coffee with cream.
(b) African Folk Art.
(c) Billie Holiday and the Blues.
(d) Nat King Cole's music.

5. What does Birdie think that Sandy needs to buy in Chapter 8?
(a) A new outfit.
(b) A new house.
(c) More food.
(d) A new car.

6. Why doesn't Nicholas want Birdie outside alone at night?
(a) Because she is a girl.
(b) Because she could easily get lost in the deep woods.
(c) Because they live in a dangerous neighborhood.
(d) Because a murderer escaped from a nearby prison.

7. How does Carmen treat Birdie after they meet in person?
(a) She is cool and reserved.
(b) She accuses Birdie of lying.
(c) She is friendly and fixes Birdie's hair.
(d) She is rude and makes cutting remarks about Deck.

8. What fear does Sandy develop in Chapter 3?
(a) She thinks that Birdie and Cole will get hurt at school.
(b) She is afraid of the students living upstairs.
(c) She fears she is under police surveillance.
(d) She fears Deck will leave her.

9. Why does the school clerk want to assign Birdie and Cole to different public schools?
(a) For the sake of diversity.
(b) She wants to place Birdie in an all-white school.
(c) The schools are overcrowded.
(d) Because Birdie looks too young to attend Junior High.

10. In Chapter 8, why does Nicholas go outside his home one night?
(a) To smoke.
(b) To replant the yellow rose bush.
(c) To hide from Mr. Marsh.
(d) To investigate a noise.

11. What is a WASP?
(a) White Anglo Saxon Protestant.
(b) White Angry Southern Princess.
(c) White Anglo Saxon Princess.
(d) White Anglo Saxon Person.

12. Why is Sandy angry at the end of Chapter 8?
(a) Because Mr. Marsh accused Birdie of stealing his yellow roses.
(b) Because she thought the feds had captured Birdie.
(c) Because Birdie was with a white boy.
(d) Because Birdie did not come home until morning.

13. Who is Sandy Lee?
(a) A black Harvard professor.
(b) A white mother and lawyer.
(c) A white Brahmin mother and political activist.
(d) A white intellectual mother and writer.

14. How does Deck know the Harvard professor?
(a) He worked with the professor.
(b) He was the professor's neighbor.
(c) He is the professor's student.
(d) He is the professor's son.

15. What decision does Deck make in Chapter 1 that radically alters Birdie and Cole's lives?
(a) His daughters will no longer be home-schooled.
(b) His daughters will go to boarding school.
(c) The family will move to Brazil.
(d) The family will move to Canada.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has been using Sandy and Deck's second floor guestroom in Chapter 1?

2. Why can't Birdie and Cole attend the first day of public school?

3. What name does Sandy assume in Chapter 6?

4. Where do Sandy and Birdie live for four years after they leave their home?

5. What does Sandy do with the girls on the day she keeps them out of school in Chapter 3?

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