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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Jazz feel guilty about her relationship with friends?
(a) Jazz feels guilty because she does not really like those friends and wants to get away from them.
(b) Jazz feels guilty because she is hiding something from her friends and they think she does not trust them.
(c) Jazz feels guilty because she secretly makes fun of the people she hangs with.
(d) Jazz feels guilty because she thinks she does not deserve friends.

2. In addition to Antonia, Jazz has another friend whose dad is a jerk. Who is Jazz's other friend with a bad dad?
(a) Sylvia.
(b) Linda.
(c) Eeks.
(d) Ram.

3. What does Jazz's piano teacher look like?
(a) He is broad and muscular with dark hair.
(b) He is heavy-set with brown hair and green eyes.
(c) He is tall and thin with a shaggy blond ponytail.
(d) He is short and slender with a gorgeous red beard.

4. How does Antonia feel about helping Ram with the problem with his mom?
(a) Antonia is afraid of Ram and will not help him with his mom.
(b) Antonia is scared to talk to Ram about his mom.
(c) Antonia is reluctant because she thinks she does not know enough.
(d) Antonia is excited about talking to Ram about his mom.

5. What organization does Antonia joke with Jazz about joining?
(a) The gymnastics team.
(b) The softball team.
(c) The track team.
(d) The swim team.

6. The foster parents to the DIllon kids, the Abeytas, have already raised how many children?
(a) Two.
(b) Eight.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

7. Antonia tells Jazz that if the money really does not matter, Jazz can give it to Antonia when she wins. What would Antonia do with it?
(a) Antonia would use it to paint their house so it does not look run down.
(b) Antonia would use it to buy her brothers new bicycles.
(c) Antonia would use it to buy a new wardrobe.
(d) Antonia would use it to buy her mother some flowers.

8. When Jazz's friends see her playing the piano, what does Jazz worry about them thinking?
(a) That she is a geek.
(b) That she is not talented.
(c) That she is famous.
(d) That she is crazy.

9. What is wrong with Antonia's mother?
(a) Antonia's mother is severely anemic.
(b) Antonia's mother has cancer.
(c) Antonia's mother has a heart condition.
(d) Antonia's mother suffers from clinical depression.

10. After Antonia has seen her mother in the hospital, what does she think about her mother's condition?
(a) Antonia thinks that her mother is well enough to come home.
(b) Antonia thinks that her mother has made significant improvement.
(c) Antonia thinks that her mother is doped up like a zombie.
(d) Antonia thinks that her mother has gained a lot of weight.

11. What kind of cake did Tillie help Jazz make for her mother?
(a) White with strawberry icing.
(b) Angel food.
(c) German chocolate.
(d) Italian cream.

12. Which of the DIllon children is most reluctant to go home?
(a) Antonia.
(b) Jazz.
(c) Chuckie.
(d) Michael.

13. Who tells Karen that Antonia's father is not dead?
(a) Mrs. Luther.
(b) Mrs. Bartoli.
(c) Dr. DiLeo.
(d) Mrs. Marsh.

14. After the recital, what event does Jazz invite Antonia to?
(a) Jazz's family's Thanksgiving dinner.
(b) Jazz's acceptance to Julliard.
(c) Jazz's birthday swim party.
(d) Jazz's bat mitzvah.

15. What does Jazz think her parents talk about at the country club?
(a) Jazz thinks her parents talk about where to go shopping.
(b) Jazz thinks her parents talk about their little piano prodigy.
(c) Jazz thinks her parents talk about civic causes.
(d) Jazz thinks her parents talk about current events.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Antonia goes to visit her mother for the first time since she was hospitalized, what does Antonia take to give to her mother?

2. What does Tillie bake for the Dillon children?

3. What does Antonia say about her foster parents when she jokes about them to Jazz?

4. What teacher that Jazz despises comes into the auditorium and hears her playing?

5. What does Ram look like?

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