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

2. What is it about Gram that Dicey realizes when she notices how Gram reacts to Maybeth's lateness?
(a) Gram seems to be growing stronger and more determined every day.
(b) Gram is now made vulnerable to the world as a result of taking in the children.
(c) Gram actually resents the responsibility thrust upon her.
(d) Gram does not have a plan or know how to cope with life.

3. While doing homework together, what does Dicey learn is troubling James about his classmates?
(a) His classmates are socially mean and overbearing toward James.
(b) His classmates are smart, but not like him; he does not fit in.
(c) His classmates are all smarter than James.
(d) His class mates are lazy underachievers with no direction.

4. What image of her mother comes to her mind as Dicey is sitting alone on the dock at sunset?
(a) A police photo of her mother's dazed face and short cropped hair.
(b) An image of her young mother laughing and running in the farm fields.
(c) An image of her smiling mother in her gown on her wedding day.
(d) A photo of her mother from the Boston newspaper.

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