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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Seventy-Six Dollars and Forty-Nine Cents.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator of "How to Transform" say he learned in the end?
(a) When a quiet person offers advice, you take it.
(b) Do not talk back to cops.
(c) When your father takes you to the gym every day, you say thank you.
(d) Always work to improve.

2. In "Secret Samantha," what do others in her class keep asking Samantha to do?
(a) Pick out their Secret Santa gifts for them.
(b) Deliver their Secret Santa gifts.
(c) Ask Miss Lee to postpone the upcoming quiz.
(d) Find out if Blade has pet snakes.

3. In "Choctaw Bigfoot, Midnight in the Mountains," what does the uncle say is the reason he knows so much about Bigfoot?
(a) Because he learned to read before he learned to tie his own shoelaces.
(b) Because his mother read to him as a child.
(c) Because he is part Choctaw.
(d) Because he once met Bigfoot.

4. In "Secret Samantha," which present does Samantha decide to give to Blade first?
(a) The cupcake.
(b) The makeup kit.
(c) The shoelaces.
(d) The boots.

5. In "A Difficult Path," why do the Lis finally allow the narrator to be tutored?
(a) A ghost comes to Mrs. Li and insists she be taught to read.
(b) The tutor offers to teach her for half price.
(c) Their incense refuses to light.
(d) They want her to be educated before she marries their son.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Choctaw Bigfoot, Midnight in the Mountains," the story is about Oklahoma, but where is it being told?

2. In "The Difficult Path," what is the passage from Li Po about?

3. In "Sol Painting, Inc.," what image appears on Merci's business cards?

4. In "Secret Samantha," who brings the new girl to class?

5. In "Main Street," where did the narrator's parents meet?

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