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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Melinda react to her talk with Heather in "Third Marking Period"?
(a) She wishes her parents were divorcing.
(b) She realizes how much the friendship means to her.
(c) She is happy for the compliment.
(d) She thinks Heather is wise to leave the Marthas.

2. What is Heather doing at the mall in "Second Marking Period"?
(a) Following some of the Marthas and carrying their packages.
(b) Survey work.
(c) Modeling.
(d) Shopping.

3. What does Mr. Freeman's painting express?
(a) His love of technology.
(b) His unhappiness with the school board.
(c) His love of nature.
(d) His love of teaching.

4. Who does Melinda wish had attended Merryweather?
(a) Gris.
(b) Picasso.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her mother.

5. What has Melinda's parents noticed in "Third Marking Period"?
(a) That she is improving on the guitar even with no lessons.
(b) That she is sometimes manic.
(c) That she does not talk.
(d) That she is a very talented artist.

6. Where does Melinda begin working at Christmas break?
(a) A fast food store.
(b) At home raking the yard.
(c) The stockroom in her mother's store.
(d) The stockroom in a rival store from her mother's.

7. What artist does Mr. Freeman want Melinda to study?
(a) Braque.
(b) Picasso.
(c) Villon.
(d) Gris.

8. Who is Andy Evans?
(a) The captain of the boys' swim team.
(b) IT.
(c) The captain of the boys' tennis team.
(d) No one that Melinda knows.

9. What did the summer party have that Melinda's mother does not know about?
(a) A lack of adult chaperones.
(b) Beer and seniors.
(c) A tattoo artist giving tattoos.
(d) Cocaine.

10. What does Melinda decide on her continued walk to school in "Third Marking Period"?
(a) To skip school altogether.
(b) To start harrassing IT.
(c) To join the basketball team.
(d) To start talking to other students.

11. Why does Melinda drop the posters she is hanging?
(a) She has a concussion from her fall in biology class.
(b) She is surprised to see her parents walk into the principal's office.
(c) She falls off the stepstool.
(d) IT comes up behind her and whispers.

12. Why is Melinda angry after being at her father's office?
(a) That he kept correcting her phone manners.
(b) That he makes her talk to strangers.
(c) That he seems to be flirting with his secretary.
(d) That he has a much more low-key job than her mother.

13. Where does Melinda decide to stop in "Third Marking Period"?
(a) At the bakery.
(b) At the pet shop.
(c) At the convenience store.
(d) At her mother's store.

14. What does Mr. Freeman bring Melinda after he comments on her work in "Fourth Marking Period"?
(a) A new set of paints.
(b) A book on Cubism.
(c) A lump of clay.
(d) A box of kleenex.

15. Who does Melinda see in the mall on the last day of Spring break?
(a) Andy.
(b) Rachel.
(c) Ivy.
(d) Heather.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Melinda call "crap"?

2. Why does Melinda shop at Effert's?

3. What does Mr. Freeman say about Melinda's work in "Fourth Marking Period"?

4. What does Melinda's mother tell her in a note in "Second Marking Period"?

5. What does Heather discuss with Melinda in "Third Marking Period"?

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