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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. Who reads the newspaper to Penny while she is in the hospital?
(a) Pop-pop.
(b) Nurse Rita.
(c) Mr. Mulligan.
(d) Her mother, Eleanor.

2. How does Frankie manage to get himself and Penny in trouble at the wake?
(a) By playing his transistor radio loudly.
(b) By laughing out loud.
(c) By chewing gum and popping it.
(d) By poking the corpse.

3. What is Pop-pop doing when Penny gets home from the wake?
(a) Listening to his deceased nephew on the radio static again.
(b) Writing a tribute about the deceased relative.
(c) Talking on the telephone.
(d) Paying some bills.

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

5. Which of the following is not among the gifts that Penny receives on her birthday?
(a) A fancy satin skirt.
(b) A comb and brush set.
(c) Black patent Mary Janes.
(d) A twenty-dollar bill.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following United States military services does Mr. Mulligan tell Penny that he joined at one time?

2. Who arrives at Penny's room at the hospital with a container full of ice cream for Penny?

3. What does Penny's mother not have the opportunity to give Penny on her birthday?

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?

5. What does Frankie know that he has to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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. According to the narrative in Chapter 14 of the book, what contributes toward Penny shedding tears and telling her Uncle Dominic that her life is all messed up?

5. According to the narrative in Chapter 16 of the book, how does Penny react in relation to her arm injury?

6. According to the text in Chapter 17 of the book, what happens in relation to those who visit Penny as she continues her stay in the hospital?

7. According to the narrative in Chapter 17 of the book, how do Penny's relatives make her feel special while she is in the hospital?

8. 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?

9. According to the text in Chapter 13 of the book, what normal events take place in Penny's life on her birthday?

10. 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?

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