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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. 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) Are you depressed?
(b) Are you bored after having spent so many days here?
(c) Can you move your fingers yet?
(d) Is the doctor going to perform surgery on you?

2. What do Penny and Jack Teitelzweig do on their outing together?
(a) They go out for ice cream.
(b) They go on a picnic.
(c) They watch a baseball game.
(d) They go to a movie.

3. What does Penny's mother gift Penny for her twelfth birthday?
(a) A locket.
(b) A bicycle.
(c) A charm bracelet.
(d) A ruby necklace.

4. Where does Me-me keep the equipment and supplies that Frankie will need to carry out his offer of help to Nonny ?
(a) In the garage.
(b) In the storage shed.
(c) In the basement.
(d) In the utility room.

5. What is Penny doing when Uncle Dominic finally stops by to see her following her stay at the hospital?
(a) Exercising her arm as the doctor instructed her.
(b) Watching her new kitten chase squirrels.
(c) Eating breakfast.
(d) Talking on the telephone.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the doctor tell Penny about her injured arm?

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

3. Who does Penny overhear talking about the young girl in her ward who is dying?

4. What color is the bedspread that adorns Penny's bed upon her return home from the hospital?

5. Where does Aunt Gina promise to take Penny when she leaves the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. Based on the narrative in Chapter 14 of the book, why has Frankie decided to run to Penny's house and hide there?

2. According to the narrative in Chapter 19, what contributes to Penny changing her attitude toward Mr. Mulligan change while she is in the hospital?

3. According to the narrative in Chapter 20 of the book, do any new beings enter Penny's life after she returns home from the hospital?

4. Based on the narrative in Chapter 15 of the book, what contributes to Penny spending a perfect day with Uncle Dominic some time after she is grounded for having disobeyed Me-me's order of not going to the public pool with Frankie?

5. Based on the text in Chapter 18, what does Penny learn from Frankie in relation to Uncle Dominic's whereabouts during her stay in the hospital?

6. Based on the text in the thirteenth chapter of the book, do any misunderstandings occur between Penny and her mother on her Penny's birthday?

7. Based on the text in the twelfth chapter of the book, why does Frankie feel justified in treating Aunt Concetta's death as an uneventful occurrence in his life as well as that of Penny's?

8. According to the text in Chapter 18, what happens to the eight-year-old female cancer patient after all the other children (with the exception of Penny) have been released from the hospital and gone home?

9. According to the text in the fourteenth chapter of the book, what does Penny do in order to keep her dying Scarlett O'Hara comfortable during the last hours of her life?

10. Based on the narrative in Chapter 20 of the book, how does Penny's job at Uncle Ralphie's meat market change when she returns to work following her stay in the hospital?

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