1. What is a comforting thought to Dicey as they sit at the table in the evening?
(a) Gram seems to be getting used to having them at her farm.
(b) Life at the farm is better than in Massachusetts.
(c) Gram adopting all four will mean they can stay together.
(d) Current troubles of each will pass, the most important thing is they are together.

2. What is Dicey's assessment of her new school and classes?
(a) School day is a series of posturing, posing, and pretending.
(b) School day is a whirl of thinking and doing.
(c) School day is long, slow, and boring
(d) School is a fun filled, safe haven from the real world.

3. What does the doctor say to Dicey that provokes her anger and grief?
(a) He tells her Momma will not be feeling better for at least one year.
(b) He assures Dicey it is better for her mother to die.
(c) He tells her Momma is a poor role model that has not taken care of herself.
(d) He tells her that Momma has an uncooperative personality.

4. What is it about the changed circumstances that has brought each of the kids to insecurity and doubt?
(a) The four will likely have to split up because no one person can handle all 4.
(b) Courts, lawyers, schools and social workers cannot be totally trusted.
(c) Gram might be too weak and fragile to permanently handle their lives.
(d) The new hope that life is about to get a whole lot better.

5. 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 is doing fine, right on course for grade level.
(d) The teacher said Maybeth's work has gone down since the start of the school year.