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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. Which of the following things does the Mother not tell her children regarding her life outside the room in Chapter 8?
(a) The places she goes.
(b) The secretarial classes she takes.
(c) The people she sees.
(d) The lovers she has.

2. What does the Mother bring recordings of to Cathy in Chapter 8?
(a) Classical music.
(b) Ballet dances.
(c) Rock groups.
(d) Pop music.

3. What is the title of Chapter 9?
(a) "Christopher's Explortation and Its Repercussions".
(b) "The Long Winter, and Spring and Summer".
(c) "The Christmas Party".
(d) "Holidays".

4. What does the grandmother tell the children they are seeds of in Chapter 5?
(a) Humanity.
(b) God.
(c) The earth.
(d) The devil.

5. Who does the grandmother not wish to raise suspicions to regarding the children being at her house?
(a) Their grandfather.
(b) The servants.
(c) John Amos.
(d) Their uncle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of Chapter 6?

2. What does the children's mother tell them they have none of in Chapter 1?

3. Where do the twins demand to go after they show disinterest in being in the attic?

4. How old is the Dollanganger children's father when he dies?

5. Who begins to scream when the grandmother gives a mean speech to the children in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the children do with the art supplies their mother brings them in Chapter 8?

2. How is the Dollanganger family's trip to Virginia described in the book?

3. What does Cathy wish about her grandfather at the end of Chapter 3?

4. Describe the condition of the Mother at the beginning of Chapter 5.

5. How does Cathy react when she learns her mother is having a baby in Chapter 1?

6. What happens when the twins come down with a cold in Chapter 9?

7. What is the nature of the list of rules the grandmother gives the children on their first day at Foxworth Hall?

8. How does the Mother try to encourage Cathy's love of dance in Chapter 8?

9. What do Chris and Cathy realize about their bodies in Chapter 8?

10. How does the mother describe the children's father the first time she met him?

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