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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 does Virginia think Big Vic might have contracted HIV?
(a) From needles.
(b) From a blood transfusion.
(c) From caregiving for his father, who also had HIV.
(d) From having unprotected sex.

2. Which animal does Hudes try to free?
(a) The chicken.
(b) The goat.
(c) The turtle.
(d) The deer.

3. How does Hudes visit her father and Sharon?
(a) By car.
(b) By ferry.
(c) By train.
(d) She does not visit them.

4. What does Hudes think not crying at funerals means for her?
(a) She did not love her family members enough.
(b) She might be a spirit.
(c) She is very tough.
(d) Her mother will notice and be angry.

5. What does Virginia say the turtle's name is?
(a) Winnie.
(b) Hoover.
(c) Ben.
(d) Turtle.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who runs the American Friends Service Committee?

2. In Chapter 5, who is Hudes's English cousin who comes to visit?

3. Whose death does Virginia predict as a young child?

4. In Chapter 5, what calamity happens to Hudes?

5. Where does Hudes travel with Virginia in Chapter 12 for the first time?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the children treat Hudes in kindergarten in Malvern?

2. In Chapter 3, what does Hudes's father say when she asks him if God is real?

3. What does Hudes's mother do to try to help her her teenage depression?

4. What family activity does Hudes sometimes feel awkward participating in?

5. What happens when Hudes gets her first period?

6. In Chapter 2, what kind of garden does Hudes's mother plant?

7. In Chapter 14, what does Hudes learn in Puerto Rico?

8. In Chapter 6, how does Hudes spend her father's wedding?

9. In Chapter 1, how does Hudes feel when leaving West Philly as a very young girl?

10. How does Hudes eventually come to feel about Sedo?

(see the answer keys)

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