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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the home ec teacher explain the importance of the course?
(a) The local business community demands students be knowledgeable about the topics.
(b) The course is mandatory to pass along to the next grade level.
(c) The local business community donates the supplies to help the students in town.
(d) Skills are taught that the girls owe it to themselves to know.

2. Who is it the family reaches out to and invites to Thanksgiving dinner?
(a) MillieTydings.
(b) Mrs. Easterleigh.
(c) Jeff Cooper.
(d) Mr. Lingerle.

3. Who is the real life person that Mina chose to write about for her essay?
(a) Mina's father.
(b) Mr. Tillerman.
(c) Mrs. Tieds.
(d) Mina.

4. What does the doctor say to Dicey that provokes her anger and grief?
(a) He assures Dicey it is better for her mother to die.
(b) He tells her Momma will not be feeling better for at least one year.
(c) He tells her that Momma has an uncooperative personality.
(d) He tells her Momma is a poor role model that has not taken care of herself.

5. What is Dicey's reaction when Jeff comes in to the market?
(a) Dicey intentionally stands where Jeff does not see her.
(b) Dicey is smiling and happy to see Jeff.
(c) Dicey goes to the back room to avoid talking to Jeff.
(d) Dicey is unresponsive to Jeff's attempt at friendly conversation.

6. As Mina and Dicey talk about different types of people, what does Dicey say about all people?
(a) People cannot be trusted to not reveal secrets about another.
(b) People are better off not being able to choose their family members.
(c) Everybody has negative secrets about themselves.
(d) Everybody has something about them you just do not like.

7. After staying at the motel for the night, where do Gram and Dicey go in the morning?
(a) They go to the pastor's meeting at the hall.
(b) They go to the hospital where Momma has been living.
(c) They go shopping for Christmas gifts.
(d) They go to meet the director of the new school.

8. After dinner as they sit by the fire, what is Gram's advice to Dicey?
(a) Teachers are trained to be critical so pay no heed.
(b) School passes quickly and is not the real world at all.
(c) You have to reach out to people, especially family, and not just let them struggle.
(d) People can be cruel and uncaring about others feelings.

9. What is clear to Dicey when see sees Momma?
(a) Momma seems to have an inner tranquility.
(b) Momma has gained some weight and looks better.
(c) Momma has trouble expressing her thoughts.
(d) Momma is dying.

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

11. What is Millie's reaction to Jeff's visit to the market?
(a) His visit causes her to be embarrassed about the condition of the market.
(b) His visit prompts her to recall her years growing up with Gram.
(c) His visit prompts her to remind Dicey about the chores.
(d) His visit causes her to tease and giggle with Dicey.

12. Though Liza seems not to notice, what does Gram sit and do?
(a) Gram writes a letter to the bank for Liza.
(b) Gram fills in information on the job forms.
(c) Gram talks non-stop about the past and about the kids.
(d) Gram does the meal planning for Liza's diet.

13. What becomes a topic of conversation during dinner?
(a) Family heirloom silver that was passed down from bootlegger ancestors.
(b) The changes in town since Gram was a child.
(c) Thanksgiving dinners of previous years.
(d) Cooking methods for turkey and chickens.

14. What thought occurs to Dicey as she resumes washing the market windows?
(a) She does not really need school, she would be happy with a little store.
(b) She needs to try harder in school so she can do more than wash windows.
(c) People in small towns are petty and self-absorbed.
(d) If you learn something, that does not mean you have to do it.

15. What happened with Sammy at school that Dicey finds reassuring and amusing?
(a) Sammy and his friends were caught climbing in trees behind the school.
(b) Sammy told several funny stories that got the teacher and students laughing.
(c) Sammy got his shoes wet, had to go shoeless inside school all day.
(d) Sammy lost a bet and had to kiss a girl, and he got detention when she screamed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Dicey's thoughts about her grade for English?

2. As they walk, what does Mina blurt out, then immediately regret?

3. What is Millie's description when Dicey asks what Gram was like when young?

4. What is the outcome of Gram's surprise for Sammy?

5. As they walk their bikes slowly, what idea does Mina suggest to Dicey?

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