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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 do the children make with the art supplies the Mother brings them in Chapter 8?
(a) Clothes.
(b) A book.
(c) Paintings.
(d) A garden.

2. Who attacks the Mother when she comes to visit the children, dressed in sailing clothes?
(a) Chris.
(b) Cory.
(c) Cathy.
(d) Cathy.

3. Who does the grandmother tell the children the person she has whipped at the beginning of Chapter 5 committed crimes against?
(a) The children.
(b) John Amos.
(c) Her.
(d) God.

4. Which of her relatives does the children's mother say is very wealthy?
(a) Her brother.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her sister.

5. What day does the Mother come in dressed in sailing clothes to visit the children?
(a) Friday.
(b) Sunday.
(c) Thursday.
(d) Monday.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the Mother tell her children they are not in Chapter 6?

3. Who expresses doubts about their mother's honesty to them in Chapter 6?

4. What does the author tell us about the story in the Prologue?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Dollanganger children's mother do at her husband's desk just after his death?

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

3. How do the children react to the grandmother's demand that they study the Bible?

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

5. What is the nature of the grandmother's speech to the children at the end of Chapter 2?

6. How does the Mother tell the children how she and Christopher acted after they first begin dating?

7. How is the Mother's childhood home described when the children see it for the first time?

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

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

10. How does Chris help Cathy deal with the twins in Chapter 7?

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