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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. How does Lee’s family refer to the infamous parents’ weekend at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) As the lost weekend.
(b) As the weekend from hell.
(c) As the weekend that shall not be named.
(d) As the weekend of eternal misery.

2. Where do Lee and Cross go after they drink their milkshakes in Chapter 2?
(a) The movies.
(b) Back to Cross's dorm room.
(c) The beach.
(d) They part ways.

3. What type of dance takes place in Chapter 1?
(a) A drag dance.
(b) A homecoming dance.
(c) A senior prom.
(d) A Sadie Hawkins dance.

4. What word does Lee use to describe the accessory worn by the intern English teacher in Chapter 4?
(a) Funny.
(b) Funky.
(c) Frail.
(d) Frumpy.

5. What does Lee think about the intern English teacher during her conversation with Aspeth in Chapter 4?
(a) That she is unsophisticated.
(b) That she is unqualified.
(c) That she is unskilled.
(d) That she is inexperienced.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Conchita's father?

2. What is the culmination of Lee’s argument with her father in Chapter 5?

3. What book do the students study in Chapter 4?

4. What is the name of the student who first asks Lee to cut his hair in Chapter 4?

5. Who gives Lee the idea to scare McGrath in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens with Lee's presentation in Chapter 1?

2. Who is Gates and what does the reader learn about her in Chapter 1?

3. Why is Lee embarrassed to read her English paper aloud to the class in Chapter 4? How does her teacher respond?

4. According to Lee in Chapter 2, how is she different at Ault compared to how she was at her old school?

5. Why do Lee and her father blow up at one another in Chapter 5? What is the culmination of this argument?

6. What does Lee think about racism at Ault? How does Chapter 4 further develop this theme?

7. Why does Aspeth get in trouble during her English presentation? How does she respond? What does she later reveal to Lee?

8. Who is the intern English teacher, and what accessory does she often wear in Chapter 4? What does Lee think about this accessory over the course of the chapter?

9. How does Lee’s family come to view the weekend that transpires in Chapter 5? How do they refer to it, and how does Lee come to view it?

10. Discuss two ways Lee’s parents embarrass her during the parents’ weekend at Ault. How does Lee react?

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