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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Christianity, what is for the majority the rite of admission into the Christian Church generally and also membership of a particular church tradition?
(a) Christmas.
(b) Baptism.
(c) Easter Sunday.
(d) Lent.

2. What school friend of Tara's is concerned with her weight?
(a) Anna.
(b) Wendy.
(c) Keesha.
(d) Kristin.

3. What does Tara's mother do because of Tara's behavior at the carnival in Chapter 10?
(a) Strangles Tara.
(b) Punches Tara's father.
(c) Slaps Tara's father.
(d) Shakes Tara.

4. In Chapter 4, Tara says that "invisible ____ had snuck into my brain."
(a) Dictators.
(b) Devils.
(c) Doctors.
(d) Demons.

5. Who does Tara go to speak to after leaving the store in Chapter 12?
(a) Father O'Malley.
(b) Tara's mother.
(c) Tara's father.
(d) Greta.

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

7. When Tara and her friends are looking at magazines in Chapter 7, who exclaims how good the models look?
(a) Keesha.
(b) Anna.
(c) Kristen.
(d) Greta.

8. In Chapter 4, Tara invents excuses why she cannot walk with people, while she devotes all her attention to doing what?
(a) Counting the cars driving by.
(b) Counting people with black shoes.
(c) Counting the birds flying by.
(d) Counting the cracks in the sidewalk.

9. Tara sees "the kindness and generosity underneath" Donna's what, in Chapter 11?
(a) "Evil thinking."
(b) "Tough-girl act."
(c) "Gothic makeup."
(d) "Poor me attitude."

10. Tara asks Donna how she can do what after going to Communion in Chapter 11?
(a) Use drugs.
(b) Watch television.
(c) Smoke.
(d) Have sex.

11. Tara fears that her parents will do what in Chapter 6?
(a) Divorce.
(b) Move to Reno.
(c) Have her committed.
(d) Send her to boarding school.

12. When Tara's father takes her to work with him, Tara is happy with the routine they get into of eating where in Chapter 8?
(a) Burrito Gigante.
(b) Popalopagus' Gyro Shack.
(c) Cavaccio's Beef Stand.
(d) Captain Smitty's Seafood Dock.

13. Tara's parents send her to a psychiatrist who is very what, in Chapter 8?
(a) Nurturing.
(b) Mysterious.
(c) Untidy.
(d) Thin.

14. What catch phrase does Tara begin hearing over and over in her head as described in Chapter 1?
(a) "Sticks and stones can break my bones but names will never hurt me."
(b) "I'm rubber, you're glue, what you say bounces off me and sticks to you."
(c) "Step on a crack, break your mother's back."
(d) "Mary, Mary, quite contrary."

15. In Chapter 7, Tara says that the summer between fifth and sixth grades was almost normal, although she would not do what?
(a) Go places with her friends.
(b) Read at the library.
(c) Go to the movies.
(d) Swim at the pool.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Donna's last name?

2. 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?

3. What does Tara repeatedly do on a ride at the carnival in Chapter 10?

4. What refers to behavior in which a person acts in a certain way not because they want to, but because they feel they have to do so?

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

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