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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 29, 30, 31 and 32.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the train do to Cassie?
(a) Cuts off her legs
(b) Cuts off her arms
(c) Crushes her chest
(d) Nothing, she is unharmed

2. What does Gertie dream of in Chapter 28?
(a) Cassie being alive and playing with her
(b) Escaping from Clovis and returning to Kentucky alone
(c) Killing herself on the train tracks
(d) Being back in her own land where flowers and vegetables were growing

3. Which of the following terrifies Cassie about the new home in Detroit?
(a) The shower
(b) The unfriendly lack of welcome she gets when she goes out to find kindling for the coal fire
(c) Banging on the walls from angry neighbors complaining about the noise
(d) The lack of pretty decoration

4. What does Max tell Gertie she needs?
(a) Friends
(b) Something to dream of
(c) A home
(d) Food

5. What does Clytie tell Cassie people are making fun of her?
(a) Because of her tattered clothing
(b) Because she is smaller than all of the other children
(c) Because she refuses to talk to other kids her own age
(d) Because of her imaginary friend

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes the family turn into full production of making the dolls using the jigsaw in chapter 32?

2. Which of Gertie's children is involved in the fight with the Daly children which Gertie witnesses?

3. Why does Gertie direct the mule into the path of the car?

4. How do Gertie and the children travel?

5. Why does Mr. Anderson begin to wear white shirts?

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