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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Ellen hide on New Year's Day while she waits for her father and his friends to leave her house?
(a) In the woods.
(b) In the closet.
(c) At Starletta's house.
(d) In the garage.

3. What well-to-do relative of Ellen's attends the funeral?
(a) Her aunt.
(b) Her uncle.
(c) Her maternal grandmother.
(d) Her paternal grandmother.

4. 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 Nadine.
(c) Aunt Betsy.
(d) Starletta's family.

5. What color is the outfit Ellen is wearing to the funeral?
(a) Blue-checked.
(b) Red plaid.
(c) Blue plaid.
(d) Red-checked.

6. How does Ellen refer to her large head?
(a) Nearly defective.
(b) Nice.
(c) Ugly.
(d) Beutiful.

7. What method does Ellen consider using to kill someone?
(a) A bottle of pills.
(b) A pillow.
(c) A poisonous spider.
(d) A knife.

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

9. What object does Ellen spy in one yard that she would like to have?
(a) A gnome.
(b) A pile of leaves.
(c) A nice family.
(d) An angel fountain.

10. What luxuries does Ellen have in her new life that did not exist in her old life?
(a) Food, books and television.
(b) Books, parents and horses.
(c) Horses, parents and clothes.
(d) Food, clothes and friends.

11. How does Ellen describe her family before the funeral?
(a) As happy.
(b) As nice.
(c) As phonies.
(d) As sad.

12. What is Nadine's response to the drive through this part of town?
(a) She rolls up the window.
(b) She did not have a response.
(c) She asks to stop for some coffee.
(d) She locks her doors.

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

14. Who takes Ellen into town for a new coat?
(a) Her father.
(b) Starletta's father.
(c) Her aunt.
(d) Her grandmother.

15. What is the pony's name that Ellen wants to ride?
(a) Dolphin.
(b) Dancer.
(c) Happy.
(d) Bullet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who visits Ellen at school after she is a ward of the state?

2. How does Ellen honor her mother?

3. When Ellen returns to school after the funeral, what does one teacher bluntly ask her?

4. Who is the main character in the story?

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

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