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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. Why do the kids at school tease the girl?
(a) For being fat.
(b) For being short.
(c) For being skinny.
(d) For being tall.

2. Where does the girl sometimes sleep in "Fever"?
(a) In her father's car.
(b) On the couch.
(c) On the floor.
(d) In bed with her mother.

3. What grade is the narrator in?
(a) Seventh.
(b) Eighth.
(c) Ninth.
(d) Tenth.

4. Who answers the door at the apartment the girl visits in "By Love Betrayed"?
(a) A serious looking brunette.
(b) A mean redhead.
(c) A wild looking blonde.
(d) Her father.

5. What is the name of the salesman in "Not For Sale"?
(a) Francious.
(b) El Arabe.
(c) Le Spanard.
(d) Mr. Gold.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the girl's family come from?

2. In "Fever", where does the girl remember her mother eating dinner?

3. The book of dreams in Spanish says that the tree represents what?

4. Why did the girl visit her grandfather in "The Witch's Husband"?

5. How does the girl's mother react to the girl's father in "Fever"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the girl describe life in her apartment building?

2. In "The Chameleon", where is the chameleon moved and why?

3. When the woman in "Advanced Biology" thinks back to Ira, what does she wonder?

4. What story does the grandmother tell the girl in "The Witch's Husband"?

5. In "Unspoken", what does the mother want to tell her daughter?

6. In "The Lesson of the Sugarcane", why does the girl feel she was taken to the car?

7. What things startle the girl when she goes to a party in "Twist and Shout"?

8. What happens when the medium's friends visit her in "The Medium's Burden"?

9. How does the girl describe her father in "Fever"?

10. How did the girl feel about her visit to the shop in "An Early Mystery"?

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