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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has happened to Maybeth that brings her to uncontrollable sobbing?
(a) Her friends have been stealing from her lunch money.
(b) Her classmates laughed at her poor reading skills and the teacher could not control them.
(c) The other kids will not talk to her or sit near her on the bus.
(d) The other girls make fun of her clothes and hair.

2. 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.

3. What does Dicey's new friend say that indicates a true friendship is possible?
(a) He gives Dicey his phone number.
(b) She gives Dicey her phone number.
(c) Tells Dicey to call her Mina, the name her friends call her.
(d) Tells Dicey to call her Mandy, the name her friends call her.

4. 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.

5. Who is the subject of the long letter mailed from Boston to Gram?
(a) Dicey's father.
(b) Dicey's mother.
(c) James.
(d) Maybeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What game is Sammy playing when he tries to bend the rules?

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

3. What specific words in the song Dicey hears cause her to stop and concentrate for the meaning?

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

5. What comment by James causes Dicey to understand why James is brooding?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the effect on Dicey when she returns from a brief time out to learn the kids have gone to bed for the night?

2. What does Gram's reaction about the kids in the attic reveal?

3. Why does Gram insist upon first telling only Dicey about what the teachers had to say?

4. What action does Gram take that signals maybe there is a chance for a stable future in Maryland?

5. What is the impact on Dicey when James gets his job delivering newspapers?

6. What is the importance of the presence of Mr. Limgerle as the babysitter and staying as dinner guest?

7. Dicey relaxes in the yard a few days before school is to begin and thinks about the future. What thoughts are most troubling?

8. Dicey manages to do well in most of her classes but what is it that nags at her full enjoyment?

9. Gram receives along letter from the doctor in Boston about Momma's condition. What are Dicey's thoughts when Gram tells her that there has been no change in Momma's condition?

10. What does Dicey's surprise at being chosen as Mina's science class partner indicate about Dicey's frame of mind.

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