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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Trevor absent on the second day after the new boy arrives?
(a) He's in trouble with the law.
(b) He broke his arm.
(c) His mother won't send him to school with a white boy.
(d) He's skipped.

2. Why did Frannie start school a month late one year?
(a) The family was moving.
(b) Mama had been in the hospital.
(c) She hadn't been old enough to attend school yet.
(d) She had chicken pox.

3. What does Mama call the library?
(a) A magical place.
(b) A waste of space.
(c) Day care center.
(d) The book place.

4. What does Sean ask Frannie to imagine while they are sitting together at the beginning of chapter three?
(a) Having al lthe candy and ice cream they wanted.
(b) A world in which hatred doesn't exist.
(c) Having their father at home all the time.
(d) A bridge that connects the two sides of the highway.

5. What are the three things Sean does very well?
(a) Play baseball, do math and fry chicken.
(b) Play basketball, do science and make macaroni and cheese.
(c) Play basketball, do math and season chicken.
(d) Play football, do geography and sign.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Frannie put in the pot she's using to cook rice?

2. What color are the pants the new boy is wearing?

3. Why does the boy say he first signed to Frannie?

4. How long have Samantha and Frannie been friends?

5. What does Frannie say about the sky as they're walking home that day?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what Frannie sees at the corner of North Conduit and Eastbay Road.

2. What does Frannie discover when the new boy's father walks into the rec center and what are the reactions of Frannie and Trevor.

3. What does Frannie say about Trevor's reputation and the way other children felt about him?

4. What does Frannie say about her hair and her mother's one attempt to change it?

5. What does Frannie note about Samantha's manners and what happens at the table to make her take note of them?

6. What is the game Sean and Frannie sometimes play about sounds and give one example of their game.

7. What does Frannie say some people might see if they looked into her neighborhood and what does she think about her neighborhood?

8. What does Daddy tell Frannie about her worry over her mother and the new baby?

9. What does Frannie say is the sign for "believe" and why does she think it's appropriate?

10. What does Frannie say about Trevor's appearance and what this means about his ethnicity?

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