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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15 "Homecoming".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Gilly teach William Ernest?
(a) How to defend himself.
(b) How to play hop-scotch.
(c) How to run really fast.
(d) How to steal.

2. Why doesn't Gilly want to be in her mother's old bedroom?
(a) It is all pink, with stuffed animals and dolls.
(b) It reminds her of the mother who left her.
(c) She doesn't like the big window.
(d) She hates canopied beds.

3. What humorous note does Miss Harris add in her letter to Gilly?
(a) That she won't send any samples of Gilly's poetry with her records.
(b) That she is trying to stir up the students once in a while like Gilly tried to do.
(c) That she is making a card especially for Gilly and will send it soon.
(d) That she is sending Gilly back the card Gilly made for her.

4. Why does Gilly pull her mother's picture out from under her T-shirts?
(a) She wants to give it to her grandmother.
(b) She wants to sleep with it.
(c) She feel she doesn't have to hide the picture in a drawer any longer.
(d) She wants to see her mother's smiling face.

5. What does Gilly do by the third week in October?
(a) She tricks Miss Harris into thinking she liked her.
(b) She catches up and passes the rest of the students in her classwork.
(c) She manages to be sent to a new foster home.
(d) She joins the girl's basketball team.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mr. Evans?

2. Who is Miss Harris?

3. What does Mrs. Trotter reply when Mr. Randolph compliments her dinner?

4. What gives Gilly an idea for a prank to play on Miss Harris?

5. What happens the week before Thanksgiving?

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