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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who says, "It's the people who don't know the answers who are going to heaven, I tell you"?
(a) Mrs. Jordon.
(b) Gracie.
(c) Doug Bedloe.
(d) Mac McClintock.

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

3. What did the church women serve for dessert at the indoor picnic?
(a) Sherbert.
(b) Cake.
(c) Fruit salad.
(d) Mints.

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

5. Which member of the Bedloe family does not always look on the bright side of things?
(a) Bee.
(b) Claudia.
(c) Doug.
(d) Ian.

6. Who is Gracie?
(a) A girl who picked up Agatha and Thomas from school while Bee was in the hospital.
(b) Billy's friend.
(c) Cicely's friend
(d) Bee's neighbor.

7. What story does Agatha tell Thomas when he complains that his mother didn't read to him before bed?
(a) The Little Engine That Could.
(b) Cinderella.
(c) Snow White.
(d) Hansel and Gretel.

8. How does Danny kill himself?
(a) By taking too many drugs.
(b) By getting hit by a car while walking home.
(c) By falling asleep while driving.
(d) By crashing his car into a stone wall.

9. Why does Lucy have no one to help her with her children?
(a) Her standards are too high.
(b) She wants to do it herself.
(c) She has no relatives.
(d) Her friends are busy.

10. Why does Agatha say she can't pick up the baby, Daphne, and give her a bottle when Daphne wakes up crying?
(a) She is too small to hold a baby.
(b) She doesn't feel comfortable.
(c) She can't get her out of the crib.
(d) Because Thomas dropped Daphne the week before.

11. Whom does Doug notice on the roof, trying to pass a wire through a window?
(a) One of the foreigners.
(b) Ian.
(c) Thomas.
(d) The postman.

12. 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) They are all someone else's.
(c) She blames Doug for their bad behavior.
(d) One is Danny's.

13. Where does Ian work the summer after Danny's death?
(a) Pete's Towing.
(b) Jim's Barbershop.
(c) Sam's Garage.
(d) Sid & Ed's A-1 Movers.

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

15. What happens to the foreigners' car after they install a garage door opener?
(a) The car is in a wreck.
(b) The car is protected from the weather.
(c) The door falls down onto the car when it's halfway in the garage.
(d) The car has to be left in the driveway.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who visits Agatha and Thomas with a picnic basket of fried chicken and chocolate cake while their mother naps?

2. At Claudia's birthday party, who worries that Cicely doesn't like Ian as much as she used to?

3. Who misses Danny because he could really talk to him?

4. Who is born on Ian's birthday, January 2?

5. What is Waverly Street?

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