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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the home ec teacher explain the importance of the course?
(a) The local business community demands students be knowledgeable about the topics.
(b) The local business community donates the supplies to help the students in town.
(c) Skills are taught that the girls owe it to themselves to know.
(d) The course is mandatory to pass along to the next grade level.

2. What is Dicey's reaction to the fact she might not need to meet with the teacher?
(a) She is angry at Gram.
(b) She resents the lawyer's presence in their lives.
(c) She is happy to not have the responsibility.
(d) She thinks the school people are too intrusive.

3. What is it that distracts Dicey as she hurries from the school to the bike rack?
(a) Dicey sees a boy playing a guitar on a wall behind the school.
(b) Dicey notices a group of town girls and boys huddled together behind the school.
(c) Dicey imagines Gram sitting on the wall staring at the sky.
(d) Dicey notices a boy and a girl from a higher grade kissing behind the school.

4. What is Gram's reaction to all the paperwork about welfare assistance?
(a) She refuses to respond to the personal questions.
(b) She intentionally omits much detail.
(c) She finds the papers complicated and tells Dicey she needs her help.
(d) She cannot do it so gives it all back to the lawyer.

5. Who is the subject of the long letter mailed from Boston to Gram?
(a) James.
(b) Dicey's mother.
(c) Dicey's father.
(d) Maybeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Maybeth able to do at school that Dicey is determined not to do?

2. Who is the person Gram and Dicey decide to talk with about Maybeth's school progress?

3. When Sammy says Dicey never gets in trouble, what does Dicey say about her troubles.

4. What does Dicey do at the store on the first work Saturday that seems to make a big difference?

5. Why does Dicey not want Sammy to help with scraping the boat?

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