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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 2-3.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the common thread in the kids' background that seems to stifle true joy of life?
(a) Their comfortable former life in Massachusetts can never be recaptured.
(b) Serious physical and mental illness is hereditary in the family.
(c) Hardships and loneliness are constant facts of their daily existence.
(d) They have always been poor and looked down upon.

3. What comment by James causes Dicey to understand why James is brooding?
(a) James says people are always mean-spirited no matter what.
(b) James says life is too much about luck, not about substance.
(c) James says some people are always outsiders, wherever they are.
(d) James says all yesterdays are better than the present days.

4. What is Gram's matter of fact statement concerning the kids?
(a) Dicey should not concern herself about the kids.
(b) Maybeth will be worse within one year.
(c) James probably will be better off within one year.
(d) The family will proceed with the adoptions.

5. Where is Dicey's part-time job?
(a) Local public library.
(b) Pet store.
(c) A small grocery store.
(d) Car wash.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does James say about fitting in at the new school?

2. What additional task does Dicey take on at the store when Millie struggles?

3. While doing homework together, what does Dicey learn is troubling James about his classmates?

4. What thought occurs to Dicey when James shows the family Bible with the names of Gram's children written inside?

5. What is Gram's announcement that pleases the children?

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