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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. Which room does Gilly decide to use?
(a) A small room that used to be a nursery.
(b) Her grandmother's room.
(c) Her grandmother's sewing room.
(d) Courtney's older brother's room.

2. What does Gilly's grandmother promise before she leaves?
(a) That she would return the next day.
(b) That she would find Courtney.
(c) That she would never come back again.
(d) That she would get Gilly out of there soon.

3. What does Gilly expect to get for stealing that doesn't happen?
(a) She expects to be punished with no dinner.
(b) She expects to be sent to jail.
(c) She expects a sermon from Mr. Randolph or Mrs. Trotter.
(d) She expects to be grounded forever.

4. What do they decide to do after Mr. Randolph refuses to let Mrs. Trotter tell his son he's sick?
(a) Mrs. Trotter calls his son anyway.
(b) Mrs. Trotter insists he come stay at her house till he recovers.
(c) Mrs. Trotter stays with him and asks Gilly to look after William Ernest.
(d) Mrs. Trotter calls an ambulance to take him to the hospital.

5. Once in her room, what does Gilly begin to wonder about her mother?
(a) Why her mother left her.
(b) Why her mother left home.
(c) If she really cared about her since she sent her mother to get her.
(d) Why her mother didn't care about her or her own mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilly teach William Ernest?

2. What does Mrs. Trotter do to soothe Gilly back to sleep in Chapter 12?

3. What is Gilly wondering as she watches Mrs. Trotter's nervous actions at the table?

4. What happens as Gilly's grandmother is telling her how upset she is about Gilly's foster home?

5. What happens in the Trotter home by Thanksgiving day?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of tie does Gilly pick out for Mr. Randolph after he gets a spot on his own tie?

2. Why doesn't Mrs. Trotter step in and fight to keep Gilly living with her?

3. In Chapter 14, what does Gilly write about in her letters to Mrs. Trotter and William Ernest?

4. How quickly is the move from Mrs. Trotter's to her grandmother's going to take?

5. What happens to Gilly's plans to go see her mother in California?

6. What does Gilly find in Mrs. Trotter's open purse and where was it when she found it?

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

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

9. The night before Gilly is to leave the Trotter home, what is distressing Gilly the most?

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

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