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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 does Lynn do to save Katie when she is 5-years-old?
(a) Pulls the dog's tail.
(b) Tells Katie to play dead.
(c) Hits the cougar with a stick.
(d) Calls for her father.

2. What does Katie think is the one thing that will never change about Lynn?
(a) Her genius.
(b) Her humility.
(c) Her kindness to animals.
(d) Her love of the sea.

3. Where does Lynn stay for the first week of summer?
(a) In the car at Mother's workplace.
(b) Mrs. Kanagawa's house.
(c) In bed.
(d) Amber's house.

4. Where does Katie's uncle live?
(a) Texas.
(b) Georgia.
(c) Florida.
(d) Tennessee.

5. What does Lynn say when Katie asks if she is a genius?
(a) No.
(b) Hopefully.
(c) Maybe.
(d) Yes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many chess matches does Katsu lose to Lynn?

2. What kind of animal is Katie's favorite toy?

3. What does Lynn get hit in the chest with that sends her to bed?

4. Which of the following is NOT a story told by Katsu at the camp?

5. Who is the leader of the kids in the apartment complex?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Mother comes home from work with Katie and Sammy?

2. What happens to Lynn when Katie is 10-and-a-half-years old?

3. What do Katie and Lynn do while waiting in the car in St. Louis?

4. What does Katsu talk about while Lynn is off with Amber and some boys?

5. What kind of discrimination is found in the plant where Mother works?

6. Where does Lynn say she wants to live when she gets older?

7. What do Father and Uncle Katsu do the night before the big move to Georgia?

8. What does Lynn hope to do to make money when she is older?

9. What is Katie's mother worried about when they prepare to move to Georgia, and what is Katie's father's response to this?

10. What is the job of the man that Katie sees in the parking lot of her mother's plant?

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