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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 is the name of Riley's sister who is in the protagonist's class in school?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Elizabeth.
(c) Nadine.
(d) Julia.

2. What does the Judge refer to their group as in Chapter 3?
(a) Five lost souls.
(b) Five birds.
(c) Five strangers.
(d) Five fools in a tree.

3. What color is the car that Riley drives?
(a) Black.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Blue.
(d) Red.

4. Who tells the narrator about the grass harp?
(a) Catherine.
(b) His father.
(c) Dolly.
(d) Verena.

5. What does the narrator spy upon Dolly writing in her room?
(a) Poetry.
(b) A novel.
(c) Songs.
(d) Letters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Judge recall Dolly not having as a child?

2. How does the narrator's father die?

3. What is the name of the man who writes Catherine to ask her to marry him?

4. Where did the Judge go to school?

5. What is one of the things that Dorothy says she has loved?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the group's first interaction with Riley in Chapter 2?

2. How does the Judge come to live with his sons?

3. How does Dolly react to the Sheriff's demands? What does the Judge do?

4. What does the tree house gang do while the buzz is going on in the town in Chapter 2?

5. Who tells the narrator about the grass harp? What is it?

6. What does the Judge make of Dolly in Chapter 3?

7. What happened to Riley's uncle?

8. What "secret" does the Judge reveal in Chapter 3?

9. What does Dolly declare about love in Chapter 3?

10. What is Catherine's take on love in Chapter 3? How does her comment change the conversation?

(see the answer keys)

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