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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. How is Uncle Charles related to Frankie?
(a) Uncle Charles was the brother of Frankie's mother.
(b) Uncle Charles was the brother of Mr. Addams.
(c) Uncle Charles was the great uncle of John Henry West.
(d) Uncle Charles was the friend of the family.

2. In Part I, what happens to Frankie's best friend?
(a) She runs away from home.
(b) She is accidentally killed in a car accident.
(c) She moves to Florida.
(d) She stops talking to Frankie.

3. What is not one of the ways Frankie spends her day?
(a) Playing bridge.
(b) Playng with her dolls.
(c) Throwing knives against the backside of the garage.
(d) Eating.

4. What is the setting of the story?
(a) Tenessee.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Arkansas.
(d) Georgia.

5. How many times had Berenice been married?
(a) Three times.
(b) Two times.
(c) One time.
(d) Four times.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of Frankie's fears?

2. What is the name of the couple that Frankie's father rented their extra bedroom to?

3. During what month does the story take place?

4. What outfit has Frankie worn all summer?

5. What did F. Jasmin decide to have engraved on visiting cards that she was making?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Frankie imagine that some of the sidewalk lazies would say about her while she is working in her father's shop?

2. What changes does the month of November bring for Frances, Berenice, and John Henry?

3. What are Frankie's plans for after her brother marries his bride-to-be and why does she make these plans?

4. How does Frankie describe her experience of seeing the two boys out of the corner of her eye to Berenice?

5. How does time become Frankie's enemy in Part 3?

6. How are Frances' dreams of travel kept alive at the end of Part 3?

7. How does F. Jasmin end her last night with Berenice and John Henry?

8. What realization does F. Jasmin have about Mr. Addams in Part 2, Chapter 1? Why does she have this realization?

9. Describe the argument between the monkey man and the red-haired solider.

10. What role does John Henry play in the conversations that take place in Part 2, Chapter 2? How does the narrator's reference of John Henry as gray foreshadow what may come later in the novel?

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