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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 the man who writes Catherine to ask her to marry him?
(a) John.
(b) George.
(c) Ralph.
(d) Bill.

2. Who teaches Catherine how to make her secret potion?
(a) A voodoo witch.
(b) A minister's wife.
(c) A gypsy.
(d) Her grandmother.

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

4. What is Dolly's potion made to cure?
(a) Emphysema.
(b) Diphtheria.
(c) Dropsy.
(d) Cholera.

5. What is the only meat that Dolly likes?
(a) Rabbit.
(b) Squirrel.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Chicken brain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the sheriff go on to become?

2. What is the name of Riley's mother?

3. What is the father's name of the sisters with whom the narrator went to live?

4. How old is Dolly?

5. What does the Judge call Dorothy fondly in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens at the end of Chapter 2?

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

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

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

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

6. What is Dolly's story with the gypsy women?

7. Who packs the narrator's belongings in Chapter 1? How does he end up staying at the Talbo house indefinitely?

8. How does the Judge counsel Riley in Chapter 3?

9. Describe the differences between Dolly and Verena's mannerisms and bedrooms.

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

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