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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13 "Jackson, Virginia".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Miss Harris admit doing in the teacher's room at noon?
(a) She dances with joy.
(b) She admits calling the exterminator to get the dead frog out of her desk.
(c) She curses creatively for twenty minutes.
(d) She explains to the other teachers she is not pregnant.

2. What does Mrs. Trotter say when she falls on top of Gilly?
(a) She doesn't say anything; she just falls asleep.
(b) That she squished Gilly juicy.
(c) She asks Gilly's grandmother if she knows where Gilly is.
(d) That she thinks there's a big lunp on the floor.

3. What does Mrs. Trotter threaten everyone if they don't eat?
(a) That she'll get up on the table and jump around and make sounds like a chicken.
(b) That she will send it to the poor children to eat.
(c) That she will serve it again for breakfast.
(d) That she will throw the meal away.

4. What is the name of Gilly's last foster mother?
(a) Mrs. Richmond.
(b) Mrs. Newman.
(c) Maime Trotter.
(d) Mrs. Nevins.

5. What upsets Gilly on the morning before she is to go for her first day of school?
(a) Mrs. Trotter asks her to make the beds.
(b) Mrs. Trotter makes her get her own breakfast.
(c) Gilly is tired and doesn't want to get up so early for school.
(d) Gilly doesn't want to start school that day.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 13, who makes the belated Thanksgiving dinner?

2. Why doesn't Gilly want to be in her mother's old bedroom?

3. Who does Gilly walk home after they are finished flying the plane?

4. What does Gilly discover about William Ernest?

5. What does Gilly decide about William Ernest after he learns to fly the plane?

(see the answer key)

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