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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Reverend Emmett start when he dropped out of an Episcopal Seminary?
(a) The Church of the Second Chance.
(b) Presbyterian Day Camp.
(c) Educational course for children.
(d) Class for lapsed catholics.

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

4. What does Mrs. Myrdal say she caught Lucy shoplifting during one of their excursions together?
(a) A silk blouse.
(b) A red dress.
(c) Shoes.
(d) Jeans.

5. Who is Mr. Rumford?
(a) The owner of the cafe.
(b) The typewriter man.
(c) A neighbor.
(d) A teacher at the high school.

6. Who is watching her relative's large horse farm where the Church has an indoor picnic?
(a) Cicely.
(b) Sister Priscilla.
(c) Bee.
(d) Mrs. Jordan.

7. Who quit college to work for the post office?
(a) Danny.
(b) Mrs. Jordan.
(c) Bee.
(d) Lucy.

8. How does Ian help Gracie with her apartment in Chapter Five?
(a) He repairs the stairs.
(b) He paints the walls.
(c) He fixes her garbage disposal.
(d) He plugs up the rat holes.

9. What does Bee think her family has turned into now that Danny is gone?
(a) Religious zealots.
(b) Organizers.
(c) Planners.
(d) Worriers.

10. What are Thomas and Agatha doing while their mother naps in the beginning of Chapter Two?
(a) Building legos.
(b) Coloring.
(c) Playing with playdough.
(d) Drawing.

11. Who wears a stiff white shirt and black pants to the Day Camp?
(a) Doug.
(b) Dr. Deaver.
(c) Ian.
(d) Reverend Emmett.

12. What pets do the Bedloes have?
(a) Two cats.
(b) Dog, cat, and a goldfish.
(c) Three turtles.
(d) Hamster and a guinea pig.

13. After the picnic, what does Bee admit to herself, and to Doug, about Lucy's children?
(a) She is happy they are living with her.
(b) One is Danny's.
(c) They are all someone else's.
(d) She blames Doug for their bad behavior.

14. When Lucy calls Mr. Rumford one evening, who answers the phone?
(a) Mrs. Rumford.
(b) The maid.
(c) Mr. Rumford.
(d) Mr. Rumford's niece.

15. Who stays at Claudia's birthday party for only a few minutes before leaving with some friends from college?
(a) Cicely.
(b) Billy.
(c) Abby.
(d) Ian.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says, "It's the people who don't know the answers who are going to heaven, I tell you"?

2. How do the children at the Church Day Camp feel about Sister Audrey?

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

4. How does Agatha wake up Lucy when she's been sleeping for a long time?

5. Who decides to take a leave of absence from school until Daphne is in first grade?

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