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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 the age of the young girl who is dying of cancer in Penny's ward at the hospital?
(a) Six (6) years of age.
(b) Eight (8) years of age.
(c) Five (5) years of age.
(d) Seven (7) years of age.

2. Where is Me-me when Penny gets home from the wake?
(a) In the living room.
(b) In the kitchen.
(c) In the dining room.
(d) In the bedroom.

3. Which of the following activities does Penny find most exhausting during her stay at the hospital?
(a) Physical therapy.
(b) Socializing with her visitors.
(c) Using the bathroom.
(d) Bathing.

4. Which of the following items had Uncle Dominic given to Penny's father that created such a stir that resulted in Penny's father being sent to an internment camp in the state of Oklahoma where he eventually died?
(a) A telescope.
(b) An Italian spy trade publication.
(c) A short wave radio.
(d) A decoder.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the flavor of the ice cream that Penny is gifted with while she is recuperating in the hospital?

2. Where does Penny travel for one of her birthday gifts?

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

4. What color have the walls in Penny's room been painted to prior to her return home from the hospital?

5. What month of the year is underway when Frankie asks Penny to go to the public pool with him?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to the text in the twelfth chapter of the book, how does Uncle Dominic resolve the situations that Uncle Benny gets into as family members are attempting to make their way to and from Aunt Concetta's wake?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. According to the text in Chapter 17 of the book, what contributes to Penny's disappointment while she is in the hospital?

6. According to the text in Chapter 20 of the book, do any pleasant things or occurrences take place in Penny's life upon her return from the hospital?

7. Based on the narrative in Chapter 19, how does Penny finally learn the truth about the circumstances that had surrounded her father's death?

8. 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?

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

10. Based on the text in Chapter 20 of the book, how has Penny's bedroom been changed when she returns home following her stay in the hospital?

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