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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Daphne want to take to Day Camp as a toddler?
(a) Her favorite doll.
(b) Her pet bird.
(c) Her blanket.
(d) Her lawn mower pull toy.

2. What does Ian envy about the man he meets on his job who is installing cabinets?
(a) He makes a lot of money.
(b) He is deaf, and seems serene in his silent world.
(c) He doesn't talk.
(d) He has a degree from a business school.

3. Whom does Ian invite to the Church of the Second Chance's picnic?
(a) Bee and Doug.
(b) Cicely.
(c) Claudia.
(d) Jeanine.

4. What does Claudia bring her mother to help with her arthritis?
(a) Lotion for her hands.
(b) A heating pad.
(c) Department store white gloves.
(d) Exercise instructions for arthritics.

5. Who tells Thomas that he cannot look in his mother's jewelry box because he can't keep secrets?
(a) Ian.
(b) Agatha.
(c) Bee.
(d) Daphne.

6. What does Ian tell Claudia when they're in the kitchen lighting the candles on their father's birthday cake?
(a) That he's going to college.
(b) That he has a new job.
(c) That he wants to tell Danny that Daphne was not premature.
(d) That he's in trouble with the police.

7. Who told Mrs. Jordan the name of Agatha and Thomas' father?
(a) Agatha.
(b) Doug.
(c) Claudia.
(d) Thomas.

8. How does Ian fix the marred dining table after the Church's picnic?
(a) Puts a tablecloth over it.
(b) With soap.
(c) Uses polishing liquid.
(d) Calls a refinisher.

9. What is Waverly Street?
(a) The street where the post office is located.
(b) The street where the Bedloes live.
(c) The street where Lucy and Danny live.
(d) The street next to the Bedloe's street.

10. Why does Ian think Danny killed himself?
(a) Ian told him Lucy was having an affair.
(b) He took too many drugs.
(c) He was tired of living.
(d) He longed for Cicely.

11. Who misses Danny because he could really talk to him?
(a) Andrew.
(b) P.J.
(c) Mr. Kit.
(d) Doug.

12. At Claudia's birthday party, who does Thomas suspect is not a true Christian?
(a) Agatha.
(b) Ian.
(c) Cicely.
(d) Claudia.

13. Who decides to take a leave of absence from school until Daphne is in first grade?
(a) Cicely.
(b) Ian.
(c) Mr. Bedloe.
(d) Andrew.

14. What did Sister Audrey leave in a dumpster?
(a) Important papers.
(b) Her favorite sweater.
(c) Yesterday's trash.
(d) A newborn baby.

15. What fairy tale characters does Agatha compare herself and her brother with, after her mother sips a coke and takes pills at her bedside?
(a) Beauty and the Beast.
(b) Cinderella and Prince Charming.
(c) Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
(d) Hansel and Gretel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Thomas and Agatha doing while their mother naps in the beginning of Chapter Two?

2. When Mr. Belling comes to visit Lucy in the apartment over the pharmacy, what does he give Agatha and Thomas?

3. What does Bee think her family has turned into now that Danny is gone?

4. Who comes to baby-sit the children during Lucy's funeral?

5. Who quit college to work for the post office?

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