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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who visits Ellen at school after she is a ward of the state?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her mother.
(c) No one.
(d) A psychiatrist.

3. Why doesn't Ellen tell anyone about her problems with her father?
(a) She didn't have any problems.
(b) She was worried she'd get in trouble.
(c) She didn't care about her problems.
(d) She was scared and untrusting.

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

5. 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 garage.
(b) In the closet.
(c) In the woods.
(d) At Starletta's house.

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

7. Where does Ellen celebrate her first Christmas after her mother's death?
(a) At Starletta's house.
(b) Nowhere; Ellen stopped celebrating christmas.
(c) With her father.
(d) At her grandmother's house.

8. Who is Ellen's friend that attends the funeral?
(a) Jim.
(b) Dora.
(c) Trixie.
(d) Starletta.

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

10. What entertainment activity does Ellen's father entertain his guests with on New Year's Eve?
(a) He played the guitar for them.
(b) He danced for them.
(c) He fought one of his friends.
(d) He beat Ellen.

11. What happens to Ellen when she eats the same thing as her friend's family?
(a) She got sick.
(b) She wanted more.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Her father slapped her.

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

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

14. What item does Ellen's new mama never seem to run out of?
(a) Clothes.
(b) Money.
(c) Gas.
(d) Food.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ellen respond to the blunt question asked by a teacher?

2. What does Ellen's father sign over to his relatives?

3. Ellen's family attends a funeral for what character?

4. In Ellen's new life with her new mama, what runs smoothly?

5. Who does Ellen blame for her mother's death?

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