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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 Gram's announcement that pleases the children?
(a) Gram intends to legally adopt the children.
(b) Their father is living nearby in New York.
(c) The children are moving to Boston to be close to mother.
(d) The four children will not have to separate.

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

3. What does Dicey think about Mina trying to be friendly?
(a) Mina has too many friends to care anything about Dicey.
(b) Maybe others will follow the example set by Mina.
(c) The more a person knows about her, they have a kind of hold on her.
(d) Mina is not a worthy person.

4. What advice does Dicey sharply deliver to James about school and fitting in?
(a) Worry concerning anything does not do any good.
(b) School exists to employ adults and boost adult egos.
(c) School lasts only a few years.
(d) School is a place where under-achievers pull down the achievers.

5. What is the factor that increases the boredom Dicey endures in English class?
(a) The immature responses her classmates come up with.
(b) The simplistic, silly explanations by the teacher.
(c) The standard fluff her classmates come up with.
(d) The almost total lack of responses from her classmates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Dicey's reaction as Gram silently reads the long letter?

2. What does Millie do in an expert manner that Dicey finds interesting to observe?

3. Who is the subject of the long letter mailed from Boston to Gram?

4. What is it about the changed circumstances that has brought each of the kids to insecurity and doubt?

5. What image of her mother comes to her mind as Dicey is sitting alone on the dock at sunset?

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