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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mina offer as the reason Dicey would not cheat?
(a) Dicey is part of one of the most honorable families in town.
(b) Dicey is too timid and cowardly to cheat.
(c) Dicey is so smart she does not need to cheat.
(d) Dicey would not bother to cheat because she does not care what others think.

2. What image of her mother comes to her mind as Dicey is sitting alone on the dock at sunset?
(a) A photo of her mother from the Boston newspaper.
(b) A police photo of her mother's dazed face and short cropped hair.
(c) An image of her smiling mother in her gown on her wedding day.
(d) An image of her young mother laughing and running in the farm fields.

3. 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 some people are always outsiders, wherever they are.
(d) James says people are always mean-spirited no matter what.

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

5. After some discussion among James, Gram, Mr. Lingerle and Dicey, what is the plan agreed upon for Maybeth.
(a) James will go to the library to do some research.
(b) Mr. Lingerle will go to the library to do some research.
(c) Maybeth needs more word lists to work on.
(d) Maybeth needs more difficult word lists in order to progress.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is James' first reaction to Maybeth's plight?

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

3. During lunch at the mall, what does Gram report was the teacher's review of James?

4. What is Gram's reaction to the suggestion she is a social oddball?

5. How does the home ec teacher explain the importance of the course?

(see the answer key)

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