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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 Agnes begins to gossip about the other students?

2. How does Gilly feel about her prank?

3. When Mrs. Trotter comes to check on Gilly at Mr. Randolph's house, what does the girl tell her she had found?

4. What does Mrs. Trotter say about making friends with Gilly?

5. What does William Ernest bring to Gilly's room?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Gilly do at recess on the playground?

5. What is Gilly's usual trick to get her teachers upset about her abilities?

6. What does Gilly's social worker, Miss Ellis, try to explain to Gilly before they arrive at her new foster home?

7. What analogy does Gilly use to describe Miss Harris's seeming lack of emotions?

8. In Chapter 7, what plan is Gilly concocting?

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

10. What is Gilly's first impression of Agnes Stokes, the girl she meets at recess on her second day in her new school?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Have the students explain Gilly's reaction to her grandmother and her new home. What fact stands out to Gilly? Why can't she put out her mother's photograph?

Essay Topic 3

In an essay answer the following questions: Why is Mrs. Trotter so determined to keep Gilly living with her, even after Gilly has stolen money to run away? What is motivating Mrs. Trotter to fight so hard to keep Gilly?

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