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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilly do when the principal offers to help her?

2. How much total money did Gilly get ?

3. What does Gilly find when she pulls an encyclopedia from Mr. Randolph's bookshelf?

4. What is Gilly's next idea to get more money?

5. In Chapter 4, what does Gilly offer to do with William Ernest after dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Gilly's reply when Mrs. Trotter empathizes with the difficulty Gilly must have had by being moved around so often?

2. In the beginning of Chapter 1, what is learned about Gilly Hopkins' time in the foster system?

3. What makes Gilly change her mind and comb her hair for her first day of school?

4. How does Mr. Randolph explain the word "mean" to Gilly when she asks how a flower can be mean?

5. What unpleasant memory does Gilly have when she thinks about Mrs. Trotter overprotecting William Ernest?

6. What does Mr. Evans, Gilly's new principal, explain about the class he is putting Gilly into?

7. What goes through Gilly's mind when she thinks about her last foster parents getting rid of her?

8. What is upsetting to Gilly after she plays her joke on Miss Harris?

9. What does Agnes Stokes take for granted about Gilly?

10. What is so special to Gilly about the photo she carries with her from foster home to foster home?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about the scene where Miss Ellis comes to tell Gilly she must go live with her grandmother. What is Miss Ellis trying to explain about Gilly's mother? Why doesn't Mrs. Trotter try to keep Gilly from leaving?

Essay Topic 2

Have the students write an essay about Gilly's adverse reaction to Mr. Randolph and Miss Harris being black. Besides the fact it was obvious she had little experience around people of a different race, what other reasons could there have been for her feelings? Did she pick this up from her other foster parents? Could the location of where she lived have anything to do with it?

Essay Topic 3

Have the students write an essay about what it was like for Gilly being a foster child. What does it mean to be a foster child? Is there a stigma being a foster child? How many foster homes had Gilly been in before Mrs. Trotter's? Why? Was it any fault of her own? How did this affect her attitude?

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