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

2. What is Jeff's surprise question to Dicey as they walk from the school to the market?
(a) Jeff asks if Dicey can get him a job at the market.
(b) Jeff asks if he can come to the farm to see her again Saturday.
(c) Jeff asks if Maybeth can come to his house to sing songs.
(d) Jeff asks Dicey to a school dance.

3. What does Gram tell Dicey to do with the money she hands to her?
(a) Go Christmas shopping for the kids.
(b) Go put this in Liza's account.
(c) Go buy Liza new winter boots.
(d) Go get decent take out food for Gram, Liza and herself.

4. How does Dicey explain to Mina that she is able to work a job while underage?
(a) Dicey tells Mina that Millie is not quite right in the head.
(b) Dicey tells Mina to keep the secret that Dicey is paid at the store.
(c) Millie at the store never asked for work papers plus she is a lifelong friend of Gram.
(d) Dicey is undergoing adoption so is eligible to work.

5. What does the group do after Thanksgiving dinner?
(a) Each picks a comfortable spot in the living room and tells stories.
(b) All take a walk together through the marsh down to the bay.
(c) All agree to play board games in the living room.
(d) Each picks a comfortable spot in the living room and all nap a while.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the real life person that Dicey chose to write about for her essay?

2. What does Jeff say he was hoping for when he gives a ride to the farm?

3. Why does Dicey return to the motel alone without Gram?

4. What does Mina confide to Dicey are her problems?

5. Who is it the family reaches out to and invites to Thanksgiving dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the principle involved when Sammy flatly refuses to discuss the reason for fighting on the bus?

2. What does Dicey learn from Mina about Gram that a new person to town most likely would not know for awhile?

3. What does Dicey learn about herself as a result of the brief conversation with Miss Eversleigh outside the market?

4. What family perspective concerning Momma occurs to Dicey as she does the Christmas shopping focused on each family member?

5. The home economics teacher Miss Eversleigh gives a short speech about how important it is to know the life skills she is teaching in class. What is Dicey's reaction to the speech?

6. What does Dicey immediately do the same night Gram gives the advice about letting others help.

7. When the humiliation in the classroom ends, Dicey wordlessly takes her essay from the teacher and leaves the room without expressing her thoughts. What are Dicey's thoughts at that point?

8. What does Mr. Lingerle talk about during dinner that shows he truly is concerned about the Tillerman family?

9. What does the English teacher comment about Dicey's essay that she refuses to respond to?

10. What is it about the wood carved chicken that ultimately has a big impact on Dicey?

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