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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. Who is Jo's best friend's boyfriend in high school?
(a) Mark Smith.
(b) Marshall Macker.
(c) James Lavine.
(d) Bobby Carver.

2. What is the name of Jo's and Bethie's high school?
(a) Klatter High.
(b) Marshall High.
(c) Robinson High.
(d) Bellwood High.

3. What does Bethie do to try to control her weight gain in Part I?
(a) Buy amphetamines.
(b) Drink metrecal diet shakes.
(c) Eat only grapefruit for one month.
(d) Get liposuction.

4. What record does Shelley choose to play in Jo's dorm room in Part II?
(a) Be My Baby.
(b) Walking After Midnight.
(c) Sympathy For the Devil.
(d) These Days.

5. In which year does Part One of the novel begin?
(a) 1960.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1950.
(d) 1940.

Short Answer Questions

1. What role does Bethie play in the Hebrew School play?

2. What does Harold Jefferson's father do for a living?

3. Why is Jo so upset when she comes home from Lynnette's on Thanksgiving Day?

4. Who comes to find Jo when she runs away from home?

5. Who is the leader of the protest group Jo and Shelley join at college in Part II?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Bethie when she goes to the Newport music festival in Part II?

2. Why is Jo so upset when she returns from Lynnette's on Thanksgiving Day in Part II?

3. What news does Jo receive in the section of Part I titled "2015"?

4. When Jo is a young child and standing outside the Kaufman's new home on Alhambra Street for the first time, what makes Sarah so angry?

5. What does Bethie remember about being Esther in the Hebrew School play when she was 11?

6. Why does Sarah tell Jo and Bethie that Mel refused to give their father a loan some years before their father died?

7. What starts happening to Bethie when she goes to her Uncle Mel's house every week?

8. Why is Jo hesitant to believe Shelley might like her romantically in Part II?

9. What does Jo's father do when she decides to run away from home in Part I?

10. What does Bethie think of the farm they stop at with Dev and their friends on the way to Newport?

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