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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the weather like at the funeral service?
(a) It was foggy.
(b) It was rainy.
(c) It was sunny.
(d) It was cold.

2. What does Ellen contemplate before leaving the bathroom to give everyone something to talk about?
(a) Padding her dress.
(b) Hugging her cousin.
(c) Hitting her aunt.
(d) Outing her father.

3. How long does Ellen's new roommate let her stay when Ellen runs away from her father's home?
(a) Forever.
(b) A month.
(c) A week.
(d) The weekend.

4. What activity has become an escape for Ellen?
(a) Reading.
(b) Shopping.
(c) Drinking.
(d) Playing computer games.

5. How does Ellen feel about her aunt?
(a) She loved her.
(b) She disliked her.
(c) She was indifferent to her.
(d) She wanted to be just like her.

6. Why does Ellen feel that her mother is better off in the hospital than at home?
(a) At the hospital her family loves her.
(b) At the hospital her husband visits her.
(c) At the hospital she is cared for.
(d) At the hospital she can hide.

7. What occupation does Aunt Nadine have?
(a) A funeral director.
(b) A food slicer demonstrator.
(c) A housewife.
(d) A teacher.

8. What season does the funeral take place in?
(a) Spring.
(b) Summer.
(c) Winter.
(d) Autumn.

9. What happens to Ellen's mother's clothes?
(a) Ellen outgrew them.
(b) Ellen donated them to charity.
(c) Ellen's father burned them.
(d) Ellen's grandmother took them away.

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

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

12. What does Ellen's friend's family sometimes eat?
(a) Snow.
(b) Dirt.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Bugs.

13. Ellen's family attends a funeral for what character?
(a) Ellen's aunt.
(b) Ellen's father.
(c) Ellen's grandmother.
(d) Ellen's mother.

14. What is Ellen's father's name?
(a) Joe.
(b) Bryan.
(c) Tom.
(d) Bill.

15. Who does Ellen tell the teacher she wants to live with when the teacher asks Ellen to call someone to pick her up?
(a) Her father.
(b) Aunt Betsy.
(c) Starletta's family.
(d) Aunt Nadine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who takes Ellen into town for a new coat?

2. How long is Ellen's father gone the day after the funeral?

3. What is Nadine's response to the drive through this part of town?

4. Who are Rudolph and Ellis?

5. At the grave site, who does Ellen avoid looking at?

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