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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Chapter III ("Acting Is Just Pretend") and Chapter IV ("Anticipation").
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In the beginning of the novel, what is the first thing that Melissa (George) does when she gets home?
(a) She calls Kelly to talk about the ending of Charlotte's Web.
(b) She makes herself a snack and does homework.
(c) She plays Mario Kart with Scott.
(d) She gets the magazines out and spends time looking at them.
2. In Chapter III, ("Acting Is Just Pretend"), what do readers learn that Melissa's (George's) mother is opposed to?
(a) Makeup.
(b) Texting at the dinner table.
(c) Scott dating.
(d) Eating meat.
3. At the beginning of Chapter II, "Charlotte Dies," we are told that Melissa (George) rubs her eyes until "rows and rows of tiny triangles twirled and twinkled in the darkness" (Gino 11). What technique is being used here?
(a) Rhyme.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Alliteration.
(d) Hyperbole.
4. When Melissa is crying and readers are told that one of her teardrops "spread into a spiderweb on the page," (12), what technique is being used?
(a) Onomatopoeia.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Allusion.
5. What phrase do the girls always use to say good-bye?
(a) Later, Alligator.
(b) Bye now, purple cow.
(c) One-two-three...zoot.
(d) Ice cream at my place?
Short Answer Questions
1. Alex Gino repeats words like "bang" and "thump" when describing Scott moving around the house. What purpose does this serve?
2. What does Melissa (George) try to tell Kelly in Chapter III, ("Acting Is Just Pretend")?
3. What question does Melissa (George) want to ask her mom at dinner in Chapter III, ("Acting Is Just Pretend")?
4. In Chapter II, "Charlotte Dies," when Melissa (George) hesitates to tell Kelly something, what does Kelly threaten to do?
5. In Chapter I, "Secrets," what does Scott assume that Melissa (George) is looking at in the bathroom?
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