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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What hygiene task does Ellen let her new mama perform on her?
(a) Clipping her nails.
(b) Washing her hair.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Brushing her teeth.

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

3. Who does Ellen stop speaking to?
(a) Her father.
(b) Trixie.
(c) Starletta.
(d) Her aunt.

4. What is left in Ellen's mailbox each month?
(a) Money.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Food.
(d) Bills.

5. What bad habit does Dora have?
(a) Peeing her pants.
(b) Picking her nose.
(c) Biting her nails.
(d) Whining.

6. How does Ellen respond to the blunt question asked by a teacher?
(a) She told her the truth.
(b) She walked away.
(c) She slapped her.
(d) She ran and hid in a closet.

7. Who does Ellen consider killing?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her friend.
(c) Herself.
(d) Her father.

8. What type of employment does Starletta's parents do?
(a) They were lawyers.
(b) They were unemployed.
(c) They were cotton pickers.
(d) They were shop owners.

9. Which character gives Ellen the outfit to wear to the funeral?
(a) Aunt Nadine.
(b) Her father.
(c) Dora.
(d) Her mother.

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

11. Who does Ellen plan on living with after her stay at Starletta's?
(a) Her grandmother.
(b) Aunt Betsy.
(c) Aunt Nadine.
(d) Nowhere.

12. What does Ellen think her father is?
(a) A hard worker.
(b) A mean monster.
(c) A friend.
(d) A nice guy.

13. What errand does Ellen enjoy partaking in with her new mama?
(a) Paying the water bill.
(b) Pumping the gas for the car.
(c) Paying the electric bill.
(d) Going to the grocery store.

14. What writing tense does the author use to tell Ellen's story?
(a) Present tense.
(b) Future tense.
(c) Past tense.
(d) Past and the present tense.

15. What present does Ellen give to Starletta's family?
(a) A rooster.
(b) A fish.
(c) A spoon rest.
(d) Money.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bill do to Ellen on New Year's Eve?

2. How does Ellen feel about her aunt?

3. Who does Ellen tell the teacher she wants to live with when the teacher asks Ellen to call someone to pick her up?

4. What occupation does Aunt Nadine have?

5. How does Ellen refer to her large head?

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