1. What is the question from Mina that Dicey stands mute and will not answer?
(a) Mina asks did Dicey write the essay herself.
(b) Mina asks the name of the person who helped Dicey write the essay.
(c) Mina asks if Dicey is a relative of the person described in the essay.
(d) Mina asks if the person described is someone Dicey knows.

2. What are Dicey's thoughts about her grade for home ec?
(a) The next semester was certainly going to be harder material.
(b) The teacher has given Dicey a break because Dicey is new to the school.
(c) The next semester was probably going to be easier material.
(d) She did not try hard, but had attended all the classes and did the work requested.

3. What does Dicey go and do immediately after the conversation with Gram?
(a) She sits for two hours in her room thinking about Momma.
(b) She calls Mina and thanks her for the support in class that day.
(c) She awakens James and tells him about the conversation.
(d) She goes for a short walk in the salt marsh flats.

4. During lunch at the mall, what does Gram report was the teacher's review of Maybeth?
(a) The teacher said Maybeth may need a tutor to help her stay current.
(b) The teacher said Maybeth is disruptive and uncooperative.
(c) The teacher said Maybeth's work has gone down since the start of the school year.
(d) The teacher said Maybeth is doing fine, right on course for grade level.

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