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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the subject of the meeting with Maybeth's music teacher?
(a) The music teacher thinks Maybeth needs remedial help.
(b) The music teacher thinks Maybeth should withdraw from the music class.
(c) The music teacher thinks Maybeth does not try to succeed.
(d) The music teacher thinks Maybeth is very talented.

2. What specific words in the song Dicey hears cause her to stop and concentrate for the meaning?
(a) A coat of many colors.
(b) Cannot find the ways
(c) All such days are done.
(d) Time to start anew

3. What is Gram's advice to Dicey when they meet and hug in the morning?
(a) Dicey has to learn to care about others.
(b) Dicey has to learn to let go.
(c) Dicey has to learn to provide for herself.
(d) Dicey has to learn to be less emotional.

4. What does Dicey think is the most important aspect of an essay?
(a) The comments about punctuation because it always counts on the next essay.
(b) The teacher notes because that gives all the clues on how to improve a grade.
(c) The grade is the only important part.
(d) Topic sentences that give each part meaning to the whole.

5. What is Maybeth able to do at school that Dicey is determined not to do?
(a) Maybeth works harder than every other student in her class.
(b) Maybeth is making friends at school.
(c) Maybeth develops a respect for teachers that Dicey cannot seem to do.
(d) Maybeth sits and reads for hours at the school library.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dicey's reply to Jeff's surprise question?

2. What is it about Will Hawkin's character that Dicey considers as the topic for her paper?

3. What does the doctor say to Dicey that provokes her anger and grief?

4. What is Jeff's surprise question to Dicey as they walk from the school to the market?

5. What does Dicey conclude about her own standing in her class?

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