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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. Where did Tara sleep the night after the carnival in Chapter 10?
(a) The couch in the living room.
(b) The floor by her parents' bed.
(c) The bathtub.
(d) In the family car.

2. Who gets angry at Tara and even threatens to kill her in Chapter 6?
(a) Tara's sister.
(b) Tara's father.
(c) Tara's brother.
(d) Tara's mother.

3. Who has a heart attack in Chapter 10?
(a) Tara's uncle.
(b) Tara's mother.
(c) Tara's father.
(d) Tara's grandfather.

4. What is the name of Tara's neighbor who sees her fleeing from her friend in Chapter 1?
(a) Mrs. Williams.
(b) Mrs. Scott.
(c) Mrs. Phillips.
(d) Mrs. Jones.

5. 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) Lent.
(b) Easter Sunday.
(c) Baptism.
(d) Christmas.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who approaches Tara angry because they don't hang out anymore in Chapter 12?

2. In Chapter 8, Tara's father spends more and more time and energy transforming the American Legion into "a community center filled with life, laughter and piles of" what?

3. What do Tara's friends invite her to do for their Little League games in Chapter 4?

4. What nun does Tara have negative thoughts about in Chapter 5?

5. Tara tells her parents that the teacher told the class to call the police if they saw their parents doing what in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. How have Tara's relationships with her friends changed by seventh grade?

2. What causes unexpected trauma in Tara's life in Chapter 10?

3. What exchange does Tara describe with Mrs. Scott in Chapter 1? What causes Tara's humiliation?

4. How do Tara and their friends describe their personal fears in Chapter 3?

5. How does Tara describe the phrase that began her problems in Chapter 1?

6. How is Donna described in Chapter 11?

7. How does Tara defend her friendship with Donna to Keesha in Chapter 12?

8. How does Chapter 11 serve the plot of the narrative? How do the events in this chapter relate to those in Chapter 10?

9. How does Tara describe the summer between fifth and sixth grades in Chapter 7?

10. How does Tara come to feel about Keesha in Chapter 5? Why? What does this evolve into?

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