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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Aunt Gina promise to take Penny when she leaves the hospital?
(a) To Radio City Music Hall.
(b) To a lighthouse in Maine.
(c) To Coney Island.
(d) To the boardwalk in Atlantic City.

2. Which of the following is Penny struck by when her Uncle Dominic drives her home?
(a) An idea to surprise her mother with a present.
(b) The difference in her mother's family and her father's family.
(c) A hardball that crashes through the car windshield.
(d) A yearning for chocolate ice cream.

3. What is Frankie lamenting in relation to Penny?
(a) That she is a girl.
(b) That Penny does not spend enough time with him.
(c) That Penny appears to be shunning him.
(d) That Penny lives a more interesting life than he does.

4. Which of the following two questions is Penny being asked covertly every time that she is visited at the hospital by a friend or relative, and asked how she is feeling?
(a) Can you move your fingers yet?
(b) Are you depressed?
(c) Is the doctor going to perform surgery on you?
(d) Are you bored after having spent so many days here?

5. Who does Penny overhear talking about the young girl in her ward who is dying?
(a) Some hospital lab workers.
(b) Some orderlies.
(c) Some nurses.
(d) Some doctors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following activities does Penny find difficult to do while she is in the hospital?

2. What is Pop-pop doing when Penny gets home from the wake?

3. What is the ailment that appears to be claiming the life of the young girl dying in Penny's ward?

4. Who does not visit Penny while she is in the hospital?

5. Who is Carolina?

(see the answer key)

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