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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 11-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What means abnormal condition of the mind, and is a generic psychiatric term for a mental state often described as involving a loss of contact with reality?
(a) Depressive behavior.
(b) Shyness.
(c) Psychosis.
(d) Compulsive behavior.

2. What do Tara's friends invite her to do for their Little League games in Chapter 4?
(a) Keep score.
(b) Play pitcher.
(c) Play catcher.
(d) Coach the team.

3. Tara tells her parents that the teacher told the class to call the police if they saw their parents doing what in Chapter 3?
(a) Yelling.
(b) Littering.
(c) Stealing cable television.
(d) Using drugs.

4. What is a literary device in which an author indistinctly suggests certain plot developments that might come later in the story?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Foreshadowing.
(c) Oxymoron.
(d) Simile.

5. When was the American Legion founded?
(a) 1938.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1855.
(d) 1919.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 3 starts in what grade, which Tara says that is the best year of her life?

2. What is a literary figure of speech that uses an image, story or tangible thing to represent a less tangible thing or some intangible quality or idea?

3. Who wonders if Tara's condition is their fault in Chapter 6?

4. What does Tara do after stealing in Chapter 12?

5. When Tara and her friends share their fears in Chapter 3, Keesha says that she is afraid of whom?

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