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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Samantha say to the new boy when he comes running up to them?
(a) Nothing.
(b) What's your problem.
(c) Hey yourself.
(d) Why were you mean to Trevor.

2. What is Trevor singing as he walks away from Frannie and the new boy in chapter eighteen?
(a) ABC.
(b) Hand Jive.
(c) I'll Be There.
(d) Jesus loves me, this I know.

3. 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 it doesn't exist.
(d) That she's never seen it happen.

4. What does the new boy say when Rayray asks if he plans to remain at Price?
(a) That he hopes his parents will move soon.
(b) That he expects to be expelled for fighting.
(c) That he has nowhere else to go.
(d) That he hasn't yet decided.

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

6. What happens just as Frannie and the new boy enter the school building?
(a) The principal steps into the hall.
(b) Trevor rushes past.
(c) The bell rings.
(d) Rayray starts to dance.

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

8. What are the smells Frannie associates with her grandmother?
(a) Lilies and liniment.
(b) Onions and peppermint.
(c) Coconut and lavendar.
(d) Pineapple and roses.

9. What is the question Samantha says she's been wanting to ask Frannie?
(a) Why she's been hanging around with the new boy.
(b) Why she doesn't like Maribel.
(c) Why she sometimes signs to herself.
(d) Why she helped Trevor get up.

10. What is it that Frannie says Casper the Friendly Ghost is always trying to do?
(a) Find a new place to live.
(b) Scare people.
(c) Get people to not be afraid of him.
(d) Find someone who'll take him to school.

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

12. What does the new boy say he can remember about his adoption?
(a) Only that his father was very strong.
(b) Nothing.
(c) That he cried when they took him.
(d) That he was glad to leave his foster home.

13. What does Sean sign when Frannie gets in her mothers lap?
(a) Big baby.
(b) You're too old for that.
(c) You'll hurt the baby.
(d) You'll hurt Mama.

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

15. What is the song Frannie hears on the school yard as she's talking to the new boy in chapter eighteen?
(a) ABC.
(b) I'll Be There.
(c) Hand Jive.
(d) The Love You Save.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frannie say that each moment is?

2. What is Sean's response when his mother says he looks like a member of the Black Panthers?

3. Who is the singing star Frannie is in love with?

4. Where does Frannie sit when her grandmother sits on the couch?

5. What is Frannie eating when she and Sean are watching television on Saturday?

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