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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 does Jazz believe is her mother's motivation for living?
(a) Jazz believes that her mother wants to destroy everything.
(b) Jazz believes that her mother wants to set fire to everything.
(c) Jazz believes that her mother wants to control everything.
(d) Jazz believes that her mother wants to buy everything.

2. Jazz jokes back with Antonia about her foster parents and asks if they make her eat a certain food. What is that food?
(a) Chili.
(b) Spinach.
(c) Beets.
(d) Gruel.

3. What is the name of the author of Define Normal?
(a) Mary Beth Warner.
(b) Charlotte Russell.
(c) Julie Anne Peters.
(d) Judy Blume.

4. Jazz's friends make fun of the shoes that Antonia wears. What kind of shoes are they?
(a) Nikes.
(b) Ankle boots.
(c) Penny loafers.
(d) Ballet flats.

5. Antonia understands that Jazz cannot give into her mother because Jazz has what character traits?
(a) Jazz is stubborn and proud.
(b) Jazz is weak and wimpy.
(c) Jazz is mean and vengeful.
(d) Jazz is obnoxious and uncouth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is wrong with Antonia's mother?

2. What does Antonia think about the dress that Jazz is supposed to wear to the competition?

3. The foster parents to the DIllon kids, the Abeytas, have already raised how many children?

4. Why does Antonia think that she does not need to talk to Dr. DiLeo?

5. What kind of relationship did Antonia and her mother have before her mother became depressed?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Jazz's head art.

2. What does Jazz say about the definition of a dream?

3. Explain Dr. DiLeo's pairing up of Antonia and Jazz. Who was counseling who and what was the ultimate result?

4. Who is Ram and why is he important to the story?

5. How does Antonia describe her sense of isolation and loneliness after seeing her mother in the hospital?

6. Explain why Jazz never wants to play the polonaise again.

7. Several times throughout the book, the term "ya-ya" is used with reference to Antonia. What is the significance of this term?

8. Why does Jazz beg Antonia not to tell Jazz's friends about her playing the piano?

9. Why does Jazz feel guilty about her friends hearing her play?

10. Why has Karen chosen to go into social work, and what is it about her that gives Antonia hope?

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