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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 do Katie and Sammy do for the workers at the hatchery?
(a) Read to them.
(b) Take out the trash.
(c) Pour coffee.
(d) Sing songs.

2. What does Katie say is the theme of Lynn's life at the end of her essay?
(a) She was always concerned with living in the present.
(b) She gave love to everyone she knew.
(c) She was going places.
(d) She could take ordinary things and make them beautiful.

3. What does Katie listen to at night after the picnic?
(a) Cars driving by.
(b) Lynn's heavy breathing.
(c) Sammy's moaning.
(d) Her parents talking.

4. What are the names of Katsu's twin boys?
(a) David and Daniel.
(b) Jimmy and Johnny.
(c) Alex and Andrew.
(d) Rex and Ross.

5. Who takes care of Lynn during the day when her condition worsens?
(a) Father.
(b) Mother.
(c) Katie.
(d) Fumi.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Lynn stopped doing since she got sick?

2. What does Lynn think of Katie and Silly in their pretend band?

3. What do Katie and Lynn buy for their picnic?

4. What color is the house Lynn picks out to buy?

5. What is the name of the man who helps Sammy after he is injured?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Katie do for her mother just after Lynn dies?

2. How do Sammy and Lynn look as Hank drives them to the hospital?

3. What does Katie realize that means, to her, she is now a big girl?

4. What does Katie steal from the hatchery, and what does she do with what she steals?

5. Why does Katie not sleep well, and what does she do to help this?

6. What color is the house Lynn picks out, and why does she choose this house?

7. How does Sammy get hurt while on the picnic?

8. What does Silly do before she leaves Katie's house on her birthday, and why?

9. What does Katie do on her eleventh birthday?

10. How does this book end?

(see the answer keys)

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