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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ms. Johnson say about writer's block?
(a) That it happens to everyone.
(b) That you have to find a way to work through it.
(c) That she's never seen it happen.
(d) That it doesn't exist.

2. What does Ms. Johnson do to make Rayray pay attention again?
(a) Takes his knife.
(b) Takes the comic book.
(c) Takes his pencil.
(d) Turns his head away from the window.

3. What's for lunch on Wednesday?
(a) Goulash.
(b) Hamburgers and fries.
(c) Sandwiches and soup.
(d) Spaghetti.

4. How deep is the snow on the ground as Franni and Samantha walk home in chapter sixteen?
(a) About a foot.
(b) About eight inches.
(c) Just past Frannie's ankles.
(d) It's all melted.

5. What does the new boy have wrapped around his finger when Trevor begins talking to him?
(a) A string from a yo-yo.
(b) A piece of copper wire.
(c) Red licorice.
(d) The chain he's wearing around his neck.

6. What does Frannie smell when she enters her apartment Monday afternoon?
(a) Smoke.
(b) Lilacs and coconuts.
(c) Her mother's cooking.
(d) Cleaning products.

7. How does Samantha wear her hair on Wednesday?
(a) In cornrows.
(b) Smoothed down.
(c) In an afro.
(d) In long curls.

8. How many girls are in the group when one girl begins talking to Sean?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

9. What was Mama doing when she heard the news about the draft lottery?
(a) Making pancakes for Sean.
(b) Frying chicken for dinner.
(c) Making a cake for their father's birthday.
(d) Frying bacon for breakfast.

10. Where does the new boy say everyone can find the truth?
(a) In books.
(b) In their hearts.
(c) In school.
(d) In chuch.

11. What does Frannie say is the reaction in the school yard when the new boy says that Trevor doesn't have a father?
(a) Everyone begins to shout.
(b) Everyone gets quiet.
(c) Everyone turns away.
(d) Everyone moves closer .

12. What does Samantha do when she realizes Frannie sees the hole in her mitten?
(a) Puts her hand in her pocket.
(b) Blushes.
(c) Says she wonders how it happened.
(d) Says she tore it on the fence at school.

13. Where is Frannie's dad when she gets up?
(a) Cooking breakfast.
(b) Still in bed.
(c) Sitting in the rocker.
(d) Gone to buy muffin mix.

14. Who lets Frannie know that Samantha has arrived?
(a) Samantha's father.
(b) The doorman.
(c) Sean.
(d) Frannie's mother.

15. What does Samantha answer when Frannie asks if she believes spring will ever come?
(a) She simply nods.
(b) That it always has before.
(c) She says she doesn't believe it will.
(d) That she hopes it's soon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Samantha wearing to school in chapter eighteen?

2. What is Sean's reaction when a girl asks his name?

3. What does Rayray say when he comes up to Frannie and the new boy after Trevor has fallen in the snow?

4. What does Samantha say to the new boy when he comes running up to them?

5. What does Frannie's mother tell her to do as soon as she enters the house?

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