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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. What is Godbee doing in the dream she tells Martha about in Chapter 49?
(a) Taking a bubble bath.
(b) Running through a field of sunflowers.
(c) Floating on top of the water.
(d) Dancing at a ball.

2. What does Martha yell when she returns to her house?
(a) I'm hungry.
(b) I'm home.
(c) Sorry I'm late.
(d) Anybody home.

3. What does Godbee tell Martha about good-byes?
(a) They are always difficult.
(b) They are necessary.
(c) They are annoying.
(d) They are like dying.

4. What is Jimmy's dream?
(a) To be an actor.
(b) To be an astronaut.
(c) To be a surgeon.
(d) To be a filmmaker.

5. What place does the family visit two days before leaving Godbee's house?
(a) Americana Theme Park.
(b) Sea World.
(c) The Seahorse.
(d) The Knob.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Martha ask Godbee for In Chapter 49?

2. Godbee says that holding on to Martha's letter helps her to be ________________.

3. Why does Godbee placed the filled baby food jars on the window sills?

4. Martha finds Godbee in the kitchen in the middle of the night and thinks she looks like _____________________.

5. What does Godbee say about the colored water in the jars?

Short Essay Questions

1. What impact does Martha's slip in the water have on her?

2. What comment does Alice make to Martha that pleases her after Martha brings Lucy home from the beach?

3. What does Olive's journal statement about wanting to go to "a real ocean" foreshadow?

4. What is the symbolism of Martha's painting Olive's name in ocean water on the hot sidewalk?

5. What topic does Martha speak about as Jimmy films her?

6. What is The Benton Place?

7. Why does Godbee fill baby food jars with colored water?

8. What is the symbolism of the sea monster in the game Martha plays with Lucy on the beach?

9. How does Godbee feel about her colored water experiment?

10. What fact startles Martha when she speaks about Olive as Jimmy films her?

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