1. What is the outcome of the meeting with the music teacher concerning Maybeth?
(a) No changes will be made until after Dicey talks with the teacher.
(b) Maybeth will acquire a different book and try harder.
(c) He wants to give her weekly private lessons.
(d) Maybeth will undertake remedial work in order to catch up with the class.

2. What has happened to Maybeth that brings her to uncontrollable sobbing?
(a) The other girls make fun of her clothes and hair.
(b) Her classmates laughed at her poor reading skills and the teacher could not control them.
(c) The other kids will not talk to her or sit near her on the bus.
(d) Her friends have been stealing from her lunch money.

3. What thought occurs to Dicey when James shows the family Bible with the names of Gram's children written inside?
(a) Dicey thinks the list of names stirs melancholy and gloom.
(b) Dicey thinks the list of names provides mental comfort to Gram.
(c) Dicey thinks her mother's name should be lined out.
(d) Dicey thinks the four kids names should be added to the Bible list.

4. What does James express to Dicey that he finds odd about Gram?
(a) Gram tells too many quick stories about her kids.
(b) Gram does not display pictures of her children or ever talk about the past.
(c) Gram has unexplainable dark moods that come and go suddenly.
(d) Gram seems distracted by events in long years passed.

5. Who is the real life person that Dicey chose to write about for her essay?
(a) Millie.
(b) Mrs. Eastleigh.
(c) Momma.
(d) Gram.