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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sissie lack in the first summer of her narration?
(a) Affection for her parents.
(b) The ability to put events into details.
(c) Comprehension.
(d) Character development.

2. Whom does Sissie try to stay away from when she mentions the stuck bird?
(a) Her aunt and uncle.
(b) Her brothers.
(c) Jimmy.
(d) Her father.

3. How does Sissie describe her father's build?
(a) He has thin but strong arms.
(b) He is large with little muscle tone.
(c) He is thin but flabby.
(d) He has always had a fit body from working out often.

4. Whom does Sissie play a game with at the beginning of the story?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her aunt.
(c) Her siblings.
(d) Her father.

5. Whom do Sissie's brothers beg to do something?
(a) Sissie's aunt.
(b) Sissie's father.
(c) Sissie's mother.
(d) Sissie's father's friend.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following statements is true about Sissie's feelings about her mother at the end of the book?

2. What does Sissie drink as she sits with her parents in Part 3?

3. Whom does Sissie most want to help?

4. How does Sissie feel when she sees children throwing things at the stuck bird?

5. What prediction is most likely to be made based on the first summer?

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