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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 does Gertie enjoy imagining?
(a) Henley still being alive
(b) Her life at Tipton Place
(c) Life for Clovis once he is in the Army
(d) Life after her children are grown

2. What besides a letter has Clovis sent to Gertie?
(a) Directions to come live with him
(b) 60 dollars
(c) Keys to a new car
(d) His shaving strop

3. What kind of officer is in the car that stops before hitting Gertie?
(a) Police
(b) Fire
(c) Corrections
(d) Military

4. How do Gertie and the children travel?
(a) Mule
(b) Truck
(c) Car
(d) Train

5. Which of the following terms best describes how the other children treated the one child who had difficulty reading?
(a) Angry
(b) Empathetic
(c) Sympathetic
(d) Mocking

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are the children quarrelsome at the end of chapter five?

2. What takes the joy out of his hunting triumph for Reuben?

3. Why is Gertie traveling into town?

4. What does Gertie hope to buy one day?

5. Which character carves like Gertie does?

Short Essay Questions

1. Gertie meets a black woman on the train. What does this woman tell Gertie which surprises Gertie?

2. After the teachers tell Gertie not to worry about her children because they will adjust, what does Gertie wonder?

3. What is evident that both Clovis and Gertie share?

4. What joke does Gertie make with Cassie as they pass by the Tipton family house?

5. How much change does the officer give to Gertie for the ride into town?

6. Why doesn't Gertie tell her husband that she performed the surgery?

7. Why had Gertie been saving money for years?

8. At the beginning of chapter ten, Gertie awakens from a dream about what?

9. What happens right before Clovis leaves for his physical?

10. Why do you think Gertie wants to avoid her mother?

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