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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does one woman fan start chanting during one of G.T.'s campaign stops?
(a) "Watch your back."
(b) "G.T. for Mayor Now!"
(c) "Kick Millstone's butt."
(d) "Millstone is magnificient."

2. Who hosts the picnic that Hope takes Braverman to?
(a) Millstone's campaign.
(b) The local hospital.
(c) G.T.'s campaign.
(d) The Methodist church.

3. How many friends are the high school kids told to tell to vote for G.T.?
(a) As many as possible.
(b) 10.
(c) 20.
(d) 5.

4. How does Addie react when G.T. asks her for a date?
(a) She is stunned at first but then agrees to go.
(b) She is really mad.
(c) She says okay but not until Hope leaves for college.
(d) She is embarassed and declines.

5. What color hair does Deena have when she comes to visit Hope?
(a) Red.
(b) Purple.
(c) Brown.
(d) Black.

6. By how many votes does G.T. lose the election?
(a) Over 1,000.
(b) 114.
(c) Exactly 500.
(d) Only 3.

7. After G.T. becomes mayor, what kinds of civic projects do Hope and Braverman do to help make the city better?
(a) Paint houses.
(b) Fix fences.
(c) Mow grass.
(d) All of these answers are correct.

8. What do Braverman's little sisters teasingly call Hope when she goes to visit him after he is beaten up?
(a) Four-eyes.
(b) His stalker.
(c) His girlfriend.
(d) An annoying fly.

9. How did Hope spend her summer in Mulhoney?
(a) Working at the diner.
(b) Hanging out with people.
(c) All of these answers are correct.
(d) Campaigning for G.T.

10. How does the crowd react when a woman starts chanting during one of G.T.'s campaign stops in Chapter 12?
(a) She is booed.
(b) Most of them join in.
(c) Hope escorts her out before the crowd can hear her.
(d) Security makes her leave.

11. What does Lou Ellen tell Hope about Anastasia's father?
(a) That she wishes she had married him.
(b) That he died.
(c) That she doesn't know where he is.
(d) That he's already married to someone else.

12. What advice does Hope give G.T. about working in the kitchen with Addie?
(a) It only works if you let Addie have full reign.
(b) G.T. is the only person who has been able to do it successfully.
(c) Addie secretly likes it when someone else takes control.
(d) Addie once got so frustrated with someone else she chopped their finger off with a butcher knife.

13. How does the town begin to view Addie's cooking once she'd been there for a little while?
(a) As not very good but not very bad, either.
(b) As gross.
(c) As very good.
(d) As not great but cheap enough to justify.

14. What does the mayor claim in a series of damaging radio ads?
(a) That G.T.'s illness has spread to his brain.
(b) That G.T. is corrupt and trying to maniuplate the voters.
(c) That G.T. is a member of the mob.
(d) That G.T. got on the ballot using bribery and cheap tricks.

15. What specialty of Addie's does Hope bring G.T. as his health continues to decline?
(a) Chicken salad sandwiches.
(b) Pulled BBQ chicken sandwiches.
(c) Chicken soup.
(d) Friend chicken and cornbread.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hope feel about starting school in Mulhoney?

2. How does Sid advise striking back against the mayor's nasty radio ads?

3. How does Braverman react when Hope tells him what her birth name was?

4. Who does Deputy Babcock arrest for the string of burglaries that happened over the summer in Mulhoney?

5. What pattern does Babcock figure out about whose houses are being burglarized before the election?

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