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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are Stella, Frances, and Jo Jo?
(a) Ellen's aunts.
(b) Ellen's friends.
(c) Ellen's foster sisters.
(d) Ellen's cousins.

2. When Ellen returns to school after the funeral, what does one teacher bluntly ask her?
(a) How her mother died.
(b) Where her father was.
(c) Where had she been.
(d) Why was she wearing so many clothes.

3. What does Ellen use reading for?
(a) A way to make people jealous.
(b) An escape from her past life.
(c) To test her friends.
(d) To gain knowledge.

4. What item spills out of Ellen's mother's purse?
(a) Her heart pills.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Money.
(d) Bills.

5. How does Ellen honor her mother?
(a) Ellen made a shrine.
(b) Ellen wore her clothes.
(c) Ellen painted a picture.
(d) Ellen killed her father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Ellen stop speaking to?

2. From what room does Ellen observe her family from?

3. What is left in Ellen's mailbox each month?

4. What type of employment does Starletta's parents do?

5. What does Julia encourage Ellen to do?

(see the answer key)

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