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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 is James' announcement that surprises Dicey and Gram?
(a) He is totally unhappy with his life because he does not fit in at school.
(b) James intends to quit school and get a regular job to help with the finances.
(c) The family of a friend of James has offered to allow him to live there
(d) James has found a job for himself delivering newspapers.

2. What is it that distracts Dicey as she hurries from the school to the bike rack?
(a) Dicey imagines Gram sitting on the wall staring at the sky.
(b) Dicey sees a boy playing a guitar on a wall behind the school.
(c) Dicey notices a group of town girls and boys huddled together behind the school.
(d) Dicey notices a boy and a girl from a higher grade kissing behind the school.

3. What is it about Gram that Dicey realizes when she notices how Gram reacts to Maybeth's lateness?
(a) Gram actually resents the responsibility thrust upon her.
(b) Gram is now made vulnerable to the world as a result of taking in the children.
(c) Gram seems to be growing stronger and more determined every day.
(d) Gram does not have a plan or know how to cope with life.

4. What is the factor that increases the boredom Dicey endures in English class?
(a) The simplistic, silly explanations by the teacher.
(b) The standard fluff her classmates come up with.
(c) The immature responses her classmates come up with.
(d) The almost total lack of responses from her classmates.

5. What is Dicey's assessment of her new school and classes?
(a) School day is long, slow, and boring
(b) School day is a series of posturing, posing, and pretending.
(c) School is a fun filled, safe haven from the real world.
(d) School day is a whirl of thinking and doing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Gram planned for the Saturday after Halloween?

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

3. What is Maybeth able to do at school that Dicey is determined not to do?

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

5. What is it about Will Hawkin's character that Dicey considers as the topic for her paper?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the small sailboat Dicey finds in the barn anchor her thoughts on this day?

2. How does the current condition of the sailboat and Dicey's plans for it align with the current situation of the kids?

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

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

5. What does Sammy striving to be the perfect student ultimately lead to?

6. What does Dicey's actions regarding the home economics apron project reveal about her inner self?

7. 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?

8. What action does Gram take that compromises her long held principles but demonstrates her willingness to do what needs to be done?

9. What small initiative step does Dicey take soon after school starts that shows she still feels responsible for the four kids?

10. Why is Dicey not pleased with having to shop for bras?

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