1. Dicey's essay should fail because it did not comply with what restriction according to Mr. Chappelle?
(a) The essay is supposed to be about a fictional character with conflicts.
(b) The essay is too short in length for the assignment.
(c) The essay is too long for the assignment.
(d) The essay is supposed to be about a real person the student knows.

2. What does Dicey go and do immediately after the conversation with Gram?
(a) She awakens James and tells him about the conversation.
(b) She sits for two hours in her room thinking about Momma.
(c) She calls Mina and thanks her for the support in class that day.
(d) She goes for a short walk in the salt marsh flats.

3. What do the young children do on Halloween when Gram and Dicey are not home?
(a) They use Gram's old clothes for Halloween costumes.
(b) They start a small fire in the marsh grass.
(c) They eat the Halloween candy Gram had set aside as a surprise.
(d) They go into the attic without permission.

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

5. What does Mina confide to Dicey are her problems?
(a) Mina comes from a huge family none of whom she approves of.
(b) Mina is an intelligent, huge black female with a pleasing personality, a giant oddball.
(c) Mina is like Dicey because she does not care what people think.
(d) Mina has to be known as the perfect daughter of the local preacher.