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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. What is Maribel playing on the playground?
(a) Hopscotch.
(b) Jacks.
(c) Jump rope.
(d) Down, down baby.

2. When Samantha starts listing arguments as to why Jesus might return in their time, she says because of hurricanes and tornadoes. What is Frannie's response to that?
(a) Jesus wouldn't have the power to stop them.
(b) There have always been hurricanes and tornadoes.
(c) Dorothy, Toto.
(d) Jesus could stop them without coming to earth.

3. What does Samantha and Frannie share on the school yard after lunch?
(a) Secrets.
(b) A chocolate cupcake.
(c) A soda.
(d) A swing.

4. Who is the first to ask the new boy's name?
(a) Mrs. Johnson.
(b) Samantha.
(c) Trevor.
(d) Rayray.

5. What does Samantha say about telling her father that she believes the new boy might be Jesus?
(a) That she won't tell him.
(b) That she's already told him.
(c) That she plans to tell him after supper.
(d) That she plans to tell him as soon as he gets home.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Frannie sit down across from?

2. What is the word Samantha uses to describe the new boy showing up at their school?

3. What had Frannie been thinking about that very morning?

4. What is Frannie's reaction when the new boy says she and Sean look alike?

5. What does Trevor call the new boy and Frannie when he walks into the rec center?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the scars on Frannie's hands, where did they come from and what does her mother do to them sometimes?

2. How was Trevor injured?

3. What are the reactions of Samantha and Maribel when the new boy signs to answer the question posed by Trevor and Rayray?

4. Describe the conversation between Frannie and the girls who are watching Sean play basketball.

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

6. How does Frannie describe the new boy's voice on his first morning in the class room, and why does the class react to it?

7. What does Frannie say about their parents decision not to have an operation that might have made Sean hear and about what her mother sometimes does to Sean's ears?

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

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

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

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