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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 warning does Mrs. Trotter receive about being a foster mother?
(a) That a foster mother is just a glorified baby-sitter.
(b) Never treat a foster child like your own child because they aren't.
(c) Not to let foster children grow so close that you can't bear to lose them.
(d) That a foster mother shouldn't feel anything for her foster children.

2. What does the man at the ticket booth do after Gilly gives him the money for her ticket?
(a) He calls child services.
(b) He steals her money.
(c) He calls the police.
(d) He gives her the ticket.

3. What does Gilly discover about William Ernest?
(a) That if he was laughed at he'd shrink back as though preparing for a blow.
(b) That he could figure things out for himelf.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) That he was smarter than he looked.

4. What does William Ernest ask when he writes back to Gilly?
(a) If she wants to come to visit.
(b) If she won the race Gilly told him her horses were going to enter.
(c) If he can come for a visit.
(d) If Mrs. Trotter, Mrs. Randolph, and he can come for a visit.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilly tell William Ernest about school in her December 16 letter?

2. What does Gilly teach William Ernest?

3. After the Thanksgiving holiday is over, what happens?

4. What does William Ernest do when they think Gilly won't return home with them?

5. What things does Gilly's grandmother suggest for her to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What becomes clear in the letters exchanged between Miss Harris and Gilly?

2. Why doesn't Gilly feel her mother's picture fit in her new room?

3. What is the exciting news when Gilly writes her final letter in the novel to her foster family?

4. What does Gilly realize about her grandmother after she learns the woman lost her son in the war, her daughter when she ran away, and her husband four years earlier to death?

5. What does Gilly intend to do with all the money she has stolen?

6. What does Gilly's grandmother try to do as she prepares for her daughter's visit?

7. What happens during Thanksgiving week that keeps Gilly away from school on Tuesday and Wednesday?

8. In Chapter 12, who else is Gilly surprisingly sad to be leaving?

9. Who is the strange visitor while everyone is sick and why does she tell Gilly she is there?

10. Why is Gilly concerned when her grandmother promises to get her out of the Trotter foster home?

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