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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7 "Dust and Desperation".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens while Gilly is in her room looking at the mail?
(a) William Ernest knocks on her door.
(b) Mrs. Trotter comes to check if she is okay.
(c) Mr. Randolph knocks on the door and Mrs. Trotter calls Gilly to answer it.
(d) She gets a phone call that interrupts her reading.

2. Why is Gilly plotting something?
(a) She wants to go see her mother.
(b) She wants to go to a fair.
(c) She wants to go to Las Vegas.
(d) She wants to take William Ernest to the zoo.

3. What does Mrs. Trotter reply when Mr. Randolph compliments her dinner?
(a) That he can flatter the stripes off a pole cat.
(b) She blushes and tells him he says the sweetest things.
(c) "Thank you."
(d) That he is very nice to say such things.

4. How does Gilly feel about her prank?
(a) She only regrets the smell of the dead animal filling the room when Miss Harris opens her desk.
(b) She only regrets Miss Harris would never know who did it.
(c) She only regrets she doesn't have money to buy more gifts from the secret admirer.
(d) She only regrets being unable to see the faces of the other teachers when they saw the doctor's note.

5. Who is Agnes Stokes?
(a) A fifth grade girl.
(b) A girl from Gilly's class in school.
(c) A girl from school from another sixth grade class.
(d) A girl who lives next to Mrs. Trotter.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, what is Gilly's last desperate gesture?

2. Why is Gilly moved from Mrs. Richmond's care?

3. In the beginning of Chapter 7, what opportunity pleases Gilly?

4. Who is William Ernest?

5. In Chapter 5, what does Gilly decide to do with Agnes Stokes?

(see the answer key)

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