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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Aunt Gina planning to go dancing?
(a) Boston.
(b) Albany.
(c) Atlantic City.
(d) New York City

2. What does Frankie volunteer to do for Nonny?
(a) The laundry.
(b) Sweep pine needles off the roof of her home.
(c) Mow the grass.
(d) Wash her and Pop-pop's car.

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

4. Which of the following baseball teams do Penny and her Uncle Dominic support?
(a) New York Giants.
(b) New York Yankees.
(c) Dem Sluggers.
(d) Dem Bums.

5. What does Penny's mother ask her to do as she gets ready to go out to dinner?
(a) To listen to a classical music program on the radio.
(b) To lay out her school clothes to wear the next day.
(c) To help Me-me with the chores.
(d) To do her homework.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who stands up for Frankie by speaking on his behalf?

2. What does Me-me fix for Penny's twelfth birthday breakfast?

3. Which of the following terms does Uncle Dominic use in referring to Ann Marie's husband?

4. Which of the following is the name of Penny's mother?

5. What is Frankie's gift to Penny on her twelfth birthday?

(see the answer key)

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