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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Gram's reaction to all the paperwork about welfare assistance?
(a) She intentionally omits much detail.
(b) She cannot do it so gives it all back to the lawyer.
(c) She finds the papers complicated and tells Dicey she needs her help.
(d) She refuses to respond to the personal questions.

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

3. What game is Sammy playing when he tries to bend the rules?
(a) Scrabble.
(b) Parcheesi.
(c) Checkers.
(d) Monopoly.

4. What specific words in the song Dicey hears cause her to stop and concentrate for the meaning?
(a) Time to start anew
(b) A coat of many colors.
(c) All such days are done.
(d) Cannot find the ways

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has happened to Maybeth that brings her to uncontrollable sobbing?

2. What does Dicey's new friend say that indicates a true friendship is possible?

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

4. Who is the person Gram and Dicey decide to talk with about Maybeth's school progress?

5. What advice from Gram does Dicey recall when she gets irritated with James?

(see the answer key)

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