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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes the family turn into full production of making the dolls using the jigsaw in chapter 32?
(a) To overcome Gertie's grief
(b) To save money for Gertie's dream
(c) To pay Clovis's union dues
(d) Clovis is laid off

2. Whom does Gertie think beats up Clovis?
(a) Joe
(b) Mr. Daly
(c) Joe's assistant
(d) Whit

3. According to what Max tells Gertie, who controls Max's life and tells her how to live?
(a) The Daly's
(b) Victor's mother
(c) No one, she controls her own life
(d) Victor

4. Which child's conference at school went worst?
(a) Reuben's
(b) Enoch's
(c) Cassie's
(d) Whit's

5. What does Mrs. Anderson complain about having to give up for her husband's career?
(a) Writing
(b) Sewing
(c) Painting
(d) Drawing

6. About what topic does Mr. Daly continue to argue with the residents of the complex?
(a) Labor relations
(b) Catholic church
(c) Life and death
(d) Door-to-door pedaling

7. With what do the Meanwell and Daly children play?
(a) Sprinkler
(b) Wooden blocks which remind Gertie of her carvings
(c) Toy cars and trucks
(d) Garden hose

8. Which of the following words best describes what the main activities were which filled Christmas Day for Gertie?
(a) Laughing
(b) Whining
(c) Playing
(d) Arguing

9. Why did Cassie's teacher say she sent the note home?
(a) Because she thought Cassie was sad and withdrawn
(b) Because Cassie needed help with her homework
(c) Because Cassie was failing
(d) Because Cassie refused to eat

10. On what does Clovis compliment Gertie?
(a) Ability to care for the children
(b) Ability to save
(c) Ability to cook
(d) Ability to carve

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

12. What does Maggie leave to do?
(a) Become a mother
(b) Become a casino worker
(c) Become a nun
(d) Become a soldier

13. Which of the following best describes Flint?
(a) Gertie's best customer for her dolls
(b) Mr. Daly
(c) The company's combative owner
(d) Maggi's beau

14. Whose kids' Christmas presents does Gertie allow to be hid in her house?
(a) Sophronie
(b) Maggie
(c) No one's
(d) Max

15. What happens to Cassie at school which causes the other children to tease her and for her to become more withdrawn?
(a) Ran away from home
(b) Spilled her food on herself
(c) Soiled herself
(d) Got into a fight with her classmates

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the train do to Cassie?

2. What does Enoch build with scrap lumber?

3. What kind of scheme does Clovis blame for using Gertie's savings?

4. With what does Mr. Daly bully Enoch?

5. What does Max ask for when he comes to Gertie?

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